I live in a rural area and our power spikes and goes out quite a bit. This last time after what I think was a power spike my hard drive is not showing up. I have tried running it in safe mode and can not get it to see the drive for anything. Any suggestions?

I have no way to access my hard drive because it keeps coming up and saying  that the BIOS does not recognize my drive. Is this the drive failing or something that is set up in my BOIS? I am not a real techie person but need to get this fixed somehow.

I set up a external 2TB Seagate hard drive for back up and over flow storage. After setting it up I checked the drive size and it is reporting 120G. How could I have lost all that space with out anything installed on it? Is this a partition problem or a bad drive?

I use my external drive for everything to easily switch between home and work computers. It was working just fine but I just plugged it in when I got home. It now says there is nothing on the drive at all. I am so worried about losing everything. Is there a way to read a drive to recover any files on it?

Hello, I keep many important files on a USB drive and it was dropped into water.  I allowed it to dry and tried to use it, but I am getting an error and I cannot seem to be able to recover the files I need.  Is there any technique that would allow me to recover my data after this type of damage?  

I have a zip file that was sent to my bookkeeper. They keep telling me the file is corrupt and they can not open it  Is the a guaranteed way to zip a file so they can always open it? Or a program that I can suggest they use to open it?

I just added a Seagate 2T drive to my computer as a second drive. Everything loaded including the drivers. Now when I go to the drive map it only shows the first drive. I can not access the new drive at all or get it to show up in the list.

I share a computer with my roommates and I think one of them is untrustworthy.  Is there a way I can protect my information and data on the hard drive. And secure it with a password? If I can do this without the other people finding out. Any ideas?

I use my PC for work which requires me to run a lot of reports that are really large.  I end up deleting them later to save space on my drive. Is it important to defrag your hard drive manually?  Can I set my computer or run a program to automatically do this for me?

I am using a WD Elements 2TB USB  with my HP Slate. Lately I keep getting a pop up error saying the drive is damaged and try reformatting. I have way to many photos on there to lose. Can I keep using it safely or should I try to replace it soon?