One of the drives in my Dell Studio laptop has been determined to be faulty (although it seems to work fine, it will not pass a maintenance test). Dell has sent me a replacement drive, under warranty.

Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for saving, ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Most small businesses today rely on computers for a wide variety of tasks ranging from billing and accounting to maintaining inventory, email correspondence and storing HR records. All this crucial ...

Want better performance from your laptop? The conventional wisdom has long held that you should simply buy a new one. You can put such conventional wisdom aside: Upgrading a laptop may not be for the ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

From time to time when troubleshooting a laptop (and particularly when your warranty is up), you may need to open your laptop to remove and reinstall components. Removing a laptop's hard drive won't ...