External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected by Windows or macOS.

Use the following suggestions if connecting an external hard drive is causing a Blue Screen error on your Windows 11/10 computer. Connect the hard drive to another ...

An issue preventing some external drives from mounting onto a Mac running macOS Sonoma has plagued users for months, and it probably was caused by changes Apple made to drive handling. Hardware ...

Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your Mac’s USB port you will see it appear on the desktop. You can also see it in a Finder window in the left ...

I recently encountered a USB-disabled error on my Mac. After following a few troubleshooting steps, a simple update fixed my issue. I have written a complete guide to ...

When you mount a drive in the Finder, you expect it to stay there. If you’ve found that your previously reliable external hard disk drive or SSD starts ejecting itself, trouble is obviously afoot.

Tawffic Abdul Wahab ‘s external hard drive stopped showing up on his system. Not a great thing to have happen. However, unlike with an internal hard drive, he’s not necessarily looking at an expensive ...

Mac OS X 10.2.6 can cold-boot correctly from external FireWire disks (in our case, a WiebeTech 20 GB) using some Macs, but never using other Macs, such as the iMac G3/700. In older iMac (and others ...

On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB stick, portable SSD, or backup hard drive often linger in the background, ...