It’s frustrating when your computer doesn’t do what you ask. If you no longer need a disk image connected to your Mac, and you go to eject it, it can be frustrating to be met with an error: “The disk ...

Several users have experienced an issue in which an attached FireWire or USB drive will not eject. Instead, an error message pops up claiming the drive cannot be ...

August 5, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We’ve all been there: You have an external hard drive or USB thumb stick plugged into your Mac, and you’re ready ...

I am heading overseas for a year soon, and am sending my PC with my big shipment of stuff. Is is best practice to remove the hard drives prior to shipping? Can those be sent separately by something ...

Safe ejection is good practice as it can prevent data corruption, but incidents are relatively rare. Modern OS and device caching reduce failure risk, so abrupt removal usually causes no harm. It's ...

Reader Gene Dybinski would like to lend his mother a hand. He writes: Last March I bought a new Power Mac G5, and almost immediately saw an article (on either this site or in the magazine) on how to ...

A USB flash drive is a reliable way to transfer files between PCs, back up important data, or even test out different operating systems. While most USB flash drives can last over a decade, their ...

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