About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word alternative ...

Is your computer gasping for breath, drowning in a sea of photos, documents and random downloads? We've all been there: that moment when your computer feels like it's about to burst at the seams, ...

I have an old IDE hdd that my parents want to get their files off of. I thought that I could just basically plug the drive into my computer, set it as a slave in the bios, and go from there.

The hard drive that I have been using since 2017 died on me around two years ago. It was past the 5-year mark, and had started showing signs that it was about to die, such as slow access speeds and ...

*update*<BR><BR>I was able to format the drive through Maxblast (which I could not do through my XP disc), so it appears that the hard drive is not dead but was simply corrupted.