You know you’ve got a serious PC problem when your computer refuses to get through even the first phase of startup properly. If you can't get into Windows or macOS at all, then your troubleshooting ...

A few months back I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step to take given that few PCs these days come with one. A reader who uses Vista ...

If when you attempt to create a recovery drive using a USB drive on your Windows 11/10 computer but receive the error message; We can’t create a Recovery drive on ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Gateway recovery disc restores your Gateway computer to the condition it was in when you first purchased it. Using this disc potentially saves your business time and money by quickly returning the ...

If you have a computer running Windows 11, the day will come when you may have to upgrade the hard drive because it's running ...

So my wife bought a new Acer laptop that comes with Windows 8. She hates it and ask me to install her old Windows 7 back on. The laptop has a mechanical HDD and a small SSD. They are partitioned in ...

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 ...

If you find backup utilities harder to figure out than a 1040 form, you’ll be interested in BackMaster from MSR development. Although it sounds like something you might find Suzanne Somers shilling on ...

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.