This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone hard drive that cannot be accessed anymore. I’ve tried different laptops and different cables, but ...

A pair of external hard drives on a wooden surface - Wing-wing/Getty Images Many of us rely on external hard drives for our storage needs, often as a cheaper data storage medium. We use them with our ...

Many of us rely on external hard drives for our storage needs, often as a cheaper data storage medium. We use them with our laptops and desktops to back up data or transfer files between devices.

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB. Jim Rossman / TNS This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...