You now have to back up your USB drive before you try to recover anything. You can do this in Disk Drill. Go to Extra Tools, ...

My BitLocker enabled computer won't boot without my USB.

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

A budget laptop that checks boxes even some premium notebooks leave blank is rare, so consider the Acer Aspire 16 AI ($699.99 as tested) a gem. For starters, its 16-inch 120Hz IPS screen balances ...

Valve has yet to give a firm release date for the Steam Machine, but last November, when showing off the new hardware lineup, Valve employees said it would be coming in early 2026. On Feb. 4, Valve ...

The Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop with RTX 5090, 64GB RAM is marked down to $4,349.99 right now, which is $800 off the ...

With MacOS, there's something called the DFU Firmware Revive/Restore, which is a deep recovery process for unresponsive Macs. To run a DFU Revive/Restore, you have to have another Mac to update or ...

At CES 2026, Alienware announced a complete refresh of its gaming laptop lineup. The company brought back the Area-51 name with 16-inch and 18-inch models and introduced the Alienware 16X Aurora, a ...

Dell's modern Alienware gaming laptops are powerful and cool-looking machines, but they have a reputation of being hefty and expensive. That may soon change. At CES 2026 Monday, the American tech ...

Dell's Alienware brand is here at CES 2026, and the biggest highlight is in Alienware's upcoming laptops. Alienware's revived classic Area-51 brand is still going strong, including an updated Area-51 ...

After relaunching its Area-51 brand with a new 16-inch laptop in 2025, Alienware is teasing two new laptops at CES 2026 in an attempt to reach an even larger audience. Dell's gaming brand plans to ...

Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is a versatile interface that's used in all sorts of devices — from smartphones to lifestyle products — to deliver data, power, and video signals. Most commonly, we see ...