If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

When you are doing work for your business using an iMac, you can load a disk to access files and applications. All iMacs come with an optical drive, which Apple calls a SuperDrive. Unlike drives that ...

Installing an internal hard drive is one of the more straightforward upgrades out there—and is often a better option than using external drives that may be dropped or misplaced. The process usually ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

Seagate Technology agreed to buy Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock, removing its biggest competitor and bolstering its position as the No. 1 maker of computer disk drives. The offer, announced by ...

New physics research out of the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) offers new insight into a poorly understood aspect of disc drive failures, according to industry experts, though ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

Some Mac users report that their Mac or MacBook cannot read the inserted disk with the error code: “The disk you attached was not readable by this computer.” This ...