The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

Many computers these days come with two hard drives, one SSD for fast boot speeds, and one that can be used for storage. My Dell G5 gaming laptop is a great example with a 128GB NAND SSD and a 1TB SSD ...

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 ...

When Windows 11 was first announced, a lot of people were taken aback by the strict system requirements for the OS. CPUs from both AMD and Intel, that were only a couple of generations old, were ...

I'm trying to switch the old spinning disk drive out of a Mid 2009 13" MBP for a new Crucial MX300 SSD. I made a boot drive for El Capitan with Diskmaker X and tested it with the old drive in, and if ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's 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.

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, ...