In a modern Linux operating system we usually take it for granted that when we insert a USB flash drive, best hard drive, or even a DVD disk, they just appear ready for use. But under the hood there ...

Many times you must have used third-party software to quickly Mount a disc image. This image appears as a virtual DVD drive. Mounting ISO images is a great way to view and run the content of the disk ...

If the main disk in your Mac is a spinning hard drive, you should probably upgrade to a solid state drive. Swapping in an SSD is the cheapest way to make your old computer feel like a brand-new Mac.

Adam Gross, a Microsoft MVP, posted this method. You can use this method to find the location of all mounted images, extract the discard status, and then dismount each of them. It is a PowerShell ...

Kurt Jefferson wants El Capitan to let his drives go! Sometimes the drive won’t unmount no matter what, and I get the dreaded “The disk wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it” or ...

I have a USB external HDD that I connect to every day at work for Time Machine backups. I keep forgetting to unmount/eject it when I leave for the day, resulting in dire warnings from my MBP. I'm ...

At the office, I have a MacBook Pro hooked up to an 1TB LaCie drive. I’ve partitioned that external into two volumes: one for Time Machine, the other for maintaining a bootable clone of the MacBook’s ...

We previously covered an issue where FireWire devices refuse to unmount properly under Mac OS X 10.4.2. Previously, we reported that in some cases, the "Auto-Protect" component of Norton AntiVirus ...