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 ...

Sony VAIOs include a multi-purpose application called VAIO Care that enables administrators to back up and restore files, perform troubleshooting and diagnostic tests, and recover Windows. Computer ...

Like it or not, Windows 10 will occasionally fail or falter, to the point where it won’t run and won’t boot. That’s when it’s time to bring out a rescue or recovery tool often called a ...

Apple has released a tool that allows you to create a Lion recovery drive in similar ways to the current drive. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

Update: Windows expert Ed Bott offers a whole lot more information on System Restore, Shadow Copy and this tip on Vista. Be sure to check it out before you follow our half-researched, cockeyed advice.

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...

Apple has released a Lion Recovery Disk Assistant with which you can create a recovery partition on a physical storage device; here's how. Jason Cipriani Contributing Writer, ZDNet Jason Cipriani is ...

Sam McCurry wisely created an image backup of his internal drive. Now he wants to know how that backup can help him should Windows fail to boot. An image backup copies the complete contents of your ...

I’ve reviewed many of the best data recovery apps and found that EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and Disk Drill have the most reliable file restoration capabilities, while offering a simplicity that make ...

I haven't made a disk image in ages, way back in the old Win98 days useing Norton Ghost. There, you made the image, and then made a floppy disk that booted up DOS with ghost on it so you could restore ...