Installing an M.2 or SATA SSD in your desktop is an essential part of every PC build, or an easy upgrade to make your PC feel faster. Luckily, installing an SSD is easier than finding the best one (we ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

I had an idea for a different way to do a dual boot system. Install two hard drives in a system. Have one set to boot one OS (ie XP) and the other set to boot another OS (ie Linux). Instead of running ...