A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from. Whatever issues you're having on your system can be bypassed ...

Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

Google Drive is a handy place to store your data, and it comes with a regular Gmail account. You can get more out of it by tying it to Windows File Explorer.

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 ...