Every computer user who uses the computer on a regular basis knows and understands the value of his data. No matter what the situation is, he makes every possible attempt to protect it from any sort ...

When a system goes down in your office, a properly maintained recovery partition can get you up and going again in just a few minutes. In HP computers, this recovery partition is normally created on ...

If Windows keeps assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition on your system, this post will show you how to fix it. A recovery partition is a special partition that contains the Windows ...

With the availability of software that tracks inventory, manages payroll, creates advertisements and more, a personal computer isn't just useful in the smooth operation of a small business; it's ...

If you're looking to rebuild, restore, or simply troubleshoot your laptop, it can be very helpful to understand how to boot your computer into a Recovery Partition. By default, many computer ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

Missing folders? Unreadable files? Corrupted hard drive? Sooner or later, most PC users lose data of some kind. Here’s a series of steps you can take in Windows 11 (or 10) to bring things back. Sadly, ...

Reader Kai Peterson installed a copy of Yosemite but seems to be missing something. He writes: I installed a clean copy of Yosemite on an external hard drive, which I cloned to another Mac using the ...

Waycam Technologies, a Lincolnshire-based security specialist, has launched a set of data recovery tools that protect PCs from accidental or malicious data loss by creating a "protected area" on the ...

Connor is the vice president of Riverfront Technology in Clinton, Iowa. He has been working with computers since 1985, which he figures confers Grizzled Veteran status. Connor has a number of industry ...