Buying a new laptop or a better hard drive is always fun, but the part we all dread is migrating all the data from one device to another. Luckily, there is no shortage of ways in which this can be ...

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.

The trouble with conventional hard drive enclosures is that if you just want to hook up a particular drive to quickly grab some files off of it, you have to go through the hassle of unscrewing the ...