Houston Chronicle

How to Add a Solid-State Disk (SSD) to a Desktop Computer

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...
Techlicious

How to Add an SSD to Your Desktop for Well Under $100

If your desktop is running out of storage space on your current drive or you want to upgrade an existing hard disk drive to a far faster SSD, it's a really simple and inexpensive process to add a new ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Add a Second Hard Drive & Set Up Dual Booting

Disconnect your computer from power and unplug any connected cords and accessories. Reposition it to a location where you can easily access its side bay door and then remove the door. In most cases, ...
Ars Technica

Problem adding second hard disk to Optiplex GX260

Problem Details: Trying to add an additional hard disk (Maxtor ATA133 160 GB) to Optiplex GX260. Troubleshooting methodology thus far: Installed on gray connector of cable with Cable Select jumper ...
PC Magazine

hard disk

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...
Macworld

How to fix ‘The disk you attached was not readable by this computer’

Some Mac users report that their Mac or MacBook cannot read the inserted disk with the error code: “The disk you attached was not readable by this computer.” This ...
Ars Technica

Computer won't power up when hard disk plugged in. Short circuit?

As topic: the PC is a PC Chips 810LMR running a Duron 750 with 2x64Mb PC100 SDRAM, Samsung 32x CD-ROM, Western Digital WD205AA 20Gb Hard Disk. Had been running stable in this configuration for over 18 ...