If you have an old hard drive from a PC or Mac, there is a good chance you can recover the files and data on the drive. You just need to get a device that connect your drive to a new computer. This is ...

A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB.(Jim Rossman / TNS) This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand-alone ...

For data recovery purposes I would try replacing the drive's logic board with a known good board from an identical model. That is reasonably likely to work.