I am helping a man who has a Tandy 1000 TL/2 computer that has been in daily use for well over 10 years! The system finally failed, but the man wants to recover the data he has accumulated over the ...

StarTech.com's UNIDUPDOCK Hard Drive Duplicator Docking Station can be used as either a standalone hard drive cloning station for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA or IDE HDDs (or any combination IDE/SATA 2.5 ...

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 ...

Sabrent has the true one-stop storage management solution for SATA and IDE HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives like CD/DVD-RW. It easily connects to Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems and other ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...

The project utilizes the 82C55 chip in order to create a simple design of connecting a standard IDE interface hard drive to a 8051 board. It uses a software that can provide access to raw sectors ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

I have a Vaio Laptop that won't turn on, so I have purchased a HX-IDE-K so that I can hook up my hard drive to my HP Desktop, both are running Windows XP. I want to ...

So you fancy yourself a FOSS devotee, do you? Running GNU/Linux on your old ThinkPad, avoiding devices that need binary blobs? Got LibreBoot installed too? Not bad, not bad. But what about the hard ...