If Windows sees the hard drive when running a repair install, the drive is probably not broken. If the repair install doesn’t work, the drive may be infected with a boot sector virus ...

Below, our experts explain how to run CHKDSK on Windows for both older spinning hard drives and SSDs. But remember, CHKDSK won't help if you're dealing with a physically damaged hard drive (after ...

The question now is, how can you backup data that is on the damaged hard drive? Here is how you go about it. If you have done this and you’re missing an important file or folder that you have ...

Luckily there are apps that can recover your lost photos and damaged files from your failed Mac’s hard drive. Data recovery apps, like the ones we have reviewed below, can recover files with ...