As a file editor, Disk Probe lets you make changes to binary files in much the same way you use a text editor to make a change to a text file. By paging through a file, you can find readable text, ...

We previously noted a significant issue, experienced by a number of users, in which various applications including the Finder report that 0KB of disk space is available despite attempts to delete ...

Hierarchical File System Plus, also known as Mac OS Extended, is the primary file system format used in Mac computers. Windows, on the other hand, runs off file allocation system or New Technology ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

Disk Drill offers two modes of data protection: Guaranteed Recovery, which safeguards particular folders, and Recovery Vault, which protects the disk. Unfortunately, for customers with solid-state ...

“Format” as a word in computers is very popular, and a well-known word among computer users. We all have done that, especially with USB drives. That said, what people are sometimes afraid of is when ...

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

Many businesses protect confidential data stored on computers, particularly laptops, by encrypting the hard drives. This works well until you lose or forget the encryption password, which may happen ...

An archive or disk image may have utility in speeding up a whole disk backup because the internal file structure is now hidden from the file system. Instead of numerous files and directories in the ...

Several Windows users have reported receiving the error message “Can’t read from source file or disk” while they regularly transfer large files from an external ...