Several users have experienced an issue in which an attached FireWire or USB drive will not eject. Instead, an error message pops up claiming the drive cannot be ...

Safe ejection is good practice as it can prevent data corruption, but incidents are relatively rare. Modern OS and device caching reduce failure risk, so abrupt removal usually causes no harm. It's ...

Are you unable to delete files from your external hard drive on your Windows computer? If so, this post will help you resolve the issue. How do I delete files from my external hard drive? You can ...

Reader Donald Mower is rich in DVD drives and would like to control all of them from the keyboard. He writes: I have one internal and one external DVD drive in my new Power Mac G5. How do I eject/open ...

I have a 13" 2010 Macbook Pro and I recently tried to do the optibay upgrade. My problem is that I bought an external enclosure for my superdrive, specifically this one: It seems to work fine, I ...

One of the pet peeves I raised during our AppStories episode about what the Mac could learn from the iPad is how the two platforms handle the removal of external storage differently. With an iPad, ...