Want to clone your hard drive? Here's a step-by-step guide to take your though the process, as well as recommendations for the best software to use.

You can clone a hard drive to make a duplicate that you can use to replace a failed drive or get a new computer up and running quickly.

You can wipe a hard drive and data drives through your Windows 10 Settings, the DBAN utility, and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode.

Copilot on Windows can now retrieve files from your PC’s hard drive. I've tested the AI-driven search feature and show you how to benefit.

And now you want to connect it to another computer without opening the case and using the internal hard drive cabling, right? First, you need to determine what kind of cable the old hard drive uses.

Do you have a hard drive, a solid-state drive, or both? To find out what type of storage you have on your PC, open the Charms bar, click Search and type Optimize.

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