A bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains the original installation of the OS and applications for a particular computer. When booted, a recovery program (recovery console) returns the computer to ...

Disk Drill offers two modes of data protection: Guaranteed Recovery, which safeguards particular folders, and Recovery Vault, which protects the disk. Unfortunately, for customers with solid-state ...

Bare-metal recovery is also one of the biggest features missing from Windows itself. There's no native way to make a system-wide backup and then restore it in one step if things go wrong. Granted, ...

A California man has been ordered to prison for 15 months after having been convicted of “counterfeiting” thousands of Windows Reinstallation Discs. Curiously, Microsoft routinely gives away this ...

Instead of a recovery disc set, Dell computers are shipped with a built-in hidden recovery partition. This recovery partition houses the information required to restore your computer's factory ...

HP may not include recovery discs with the HP Mini-Note, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. This morning I called HP support and after spending a few minutes on hold and being transferred a few ...

Microsoft says Windows 7 recovery discs created using the Control Panel Backup and Restore app will fail to start after installing Windows updates released since January 11, 2022. However, while ...

For businesses, reformatting a computer's hard drive is often a necessary evil; viruses and spyware, for example, can devastate the operating system and the only option left is to start over fresh.

I’m moving in about two weeks, so I wasn’t sure if I should bother calling HP support and asking for a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) recovery disc or if I should wait until after I moved.

A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

Note: This file is no longer available. PC Worldregrets any inconvenience. It looked like Microsoft was finally going to do the rightthing. Beta versions of Vista SP1 came with a modern equivalent ...