From time to time when troubleshooting a laptop (and particularly when your warranty is up), you may need to open your laptop to remove and reinstall components. Removing a laptop's hard drive won't ...

There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

For a computer user, boot-up failures are as bad as it gets. They bring everything to a screeching halt until you solve the issue, and there are many possible culprits: power loss, hard drive problems ...