One of the most frustrating parts of troubleshooting any PC is that it's often the only device you have, making it tricky to recover data or reinstall the OS. I've long had a collection of USB drives, ...

If your USB drive is being shown as two separate drives on your Windows PC, follow the below methods to fix the issue: Use some basic troubleshooting tips Run the Hardware and Device Troubleshooter ...

I tried to reformat my USB drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but it says that there is no media in the specified device. It doesn’t even display total size and the free size of the USB. Then ...

A friend of mine asked me to fix his USB flash drive. It's an HP 4GB drive. My notebook is running Windows 7 64-bit. When I connected the drive to my computer, Windows installed the drivers but it ...

Are you having trouble accessing the documents you store on a USB flash drive? Well, it can happen due to several reasons. However, there are certain ways to fix it. This article will walk you through ...

You should never store all of your digital eggs in one basket, a lesson that Lifehacker reader Rafik is probably going to learn the hard way. He has a great puzzler for this week’s ...

Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

Could really do with some advice please. I have a Seagate 1TB expansion drive and the mini USB connection has come away from the connection inside the housing.Its just rattling around inside and i can ...

Corrupted USB drives can be a significant issue, especially when they contain important data. Fortunately, Linux offers a variety of tools and methods to help repair and recover data from these drives ...

My MacBook Air M1 comes with 256GB of memory. Because of this, I bought two external SanDisk drives, 128GB and 256GB, with Type-C support, to expand my storage. While I can opt for a dedicated hard ...

Since I last ran a reader Q&A a few weeks ago, I’ve received another compelling question. Reader Robert has an older Emachines desktop that recently developed a problem: “I installed a driver updater ...