The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

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When it comes time to replace your computer's hard drive, the prospect of reinstalling all your operating system and programs is exhausting. However, by copying your Ubuntu partition over to your new ...

It's never a good feeling when you fire up your computer after installing a new drive and the system can't see the new hardware. Windows 7 may not recognize a new solid state drive because of an ...

A flash RAM-based SSD gives your PC amazing speed, but it’s expensive by the gigabyte. An old-fashioned, spinning-platter hard drive gives you vast amounts of storage for very little money. But if you ...

Shortly before Christmas I got a new Acer Aspire Z3-710 all-in-one desktop system. I have been using it every day since then, and I really like it a lot. I have wanted to swap out the factory disk ...

An interesting thing about NAND Flash SSD (Solid State Drive) technologies, beyond the fact that the market is flush with competitive product offerings, is that the technology itself is very flexible ...