Disk access times can make a big difference in many applications, with the bulk of this cost coming from a hard drive's seek time, rotational time and transfer time delay. Free software can test the ...

The most precious part of your computer is the hard drive. It contains all your data, if anything happens to it, it is all gone, and you could lose all your life’s work. So, it is important that you ...

Is your hard disk drive health OK? This is an important question to answer because as time goes by, hard disk drives lose their quality, therefore, having the right tools on-hand could give you an ...

When it comes to checking errors on a hard drive, Microsoft offers the CHKDSK Tool, which does a great job. However, if, for some reason, you are looking for a 3rd-party free disk error-checking ...

Your hard drive hasn't been acting the same lately. It's starting to make clicking or screeching noises, it can't seem to find your files, and it's moving really slowly. It might be time to say ...

Any day now, the folks who bought new PCs that qualified for free Windows Vista upgrades through Microsoft's Express Upgrade program will begin receiving their disks. Others are buying shrink-wrapped ...