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With your hard drive removed from the computer and your eye protection on, repeatedly strike the hard drive on various sides until it starts to open. When open, maneuver out the round silver ...

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A bare drive dock like this one from Cirago is used to quickly move files to and from your computer via USB.(Jim Rossman / TNS) This week I got an email from a reader who asks, “I have a stand ...