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, ...

SSD problems can make your PC entirely unusable. Here's how I dealt with an SSD that caused 30-minute-long boot times.

I'm finally going with an SSD in my new Win 7 64-bit box. I'm thinking 180 GB is the minimum I should consider for an SSD boot drive. On an aging Vista box, the boot drive sizes to around 60GB and ...

Upgrading your laptop's storage to a modern SSD can make a big difference to its performance on paper and how it feels to use. An SSD swap for an old hard drive or adding in a faster NVMe SSD to ...

If you have an older SSD that you're looking to replace, you're probably wondering what to do with your previous drive. There are many ways to repurpose it, but the one thing you should not do is ...

When I bought a new laptop earlier this year, it was after several cautionary notes from fellow ET contributors that I might regret not waiting a few months for Ivy Bridge. I was thrilled with the ...

I am building a new system with a SSD drive as my boot drive. I want to place all the user data on a large capacity HDD. Is there an easy way to do this during the install? I have read various ways to ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo explains how SSDs work and offers a few useful tips on how to make them last a long, long time. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

If your Cloned SSD or HDD won’t boot the Windows 11/10 operating system on your computer, you can try our recommended solutions below in no particular order and see if that helps to resolve the issue.

This week I've been: building a new gaming PC for the next issue of PC Gamer magazine. It's a beauty, too, using the new Asus ProArt PA401 chassis and golden RAM... yes, golden! Last week I was: ...