Got a used hard drive and want to know its age? Or have you been using it for years and starting to wonder how much longer it will last? Here are a few ways to determine the age of your hard drive.

If you're unsure how old your hard drive is, check the manufacturer’s label, the drive's S.M.A.R.T. data, or the drive's ...

Attach the adapter to the router with an ethernet cable, and set up login and password credentials on your computer. You can transform your old hard drive into a unique clock. Start by removing ...

Those who were around for the pre-floppy days of computer mass storage were likely ... which is exactly why [matseng] chose to do it the hard way and built a KCS decoder with nothing but ...

On Windows 11, you can transfer the current installation with apps, settings, and files to a new hard drive, and in this ...

[Ben] recently came across a 80486 with this problem, so he had to get creative to recover the contents of the drive. He calls it the “lunchbox” computer due to its form factor, and while it ...

With so many of our gadgets going online these days, credit-card and Social Security numbers, banking information, passwords, family photos, and more accumulate in places you might not expect.

Take the old CPU from your computer ... you can make your own using the powerful neodymium magnets in a hard drive or other computer components. Dismantle the parts containing these magnets ...

If when you run a hard drive diagnostics test on your Dell Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer but receive the Error code 2000-0142, then this post is intended to help ...