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 ...

You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system ...

Disk Recovery will then prompt you to scan your computer, which will then find a variety of errors that it states it cannot fix until you purchase the program. When you use the so-called defragment ...

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, ...

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 ...

Paragon’s Backup & Recovery Community Edition is free and offers all the backup options most users need. It also leverages widely supported ZIP compression and Microsoft VHDs as container files to ...

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 ...

If you ever need to restore the entire contents of an OS X Lion startup drive, or just perform a reinstall of the OS, you’ll find that there are numerous ways to accomplish these tasks. In fact, there ...

This is an interesting development. While there have been many rants about Microsoft’s Vista SP1 beta (key point there: it is a beta) Long Zheng of istartedsomething has posted that there is a now a ...

Security researcher David Emery (via ZDNET) claimed to have discovered a bug in Mac OS X 10.7.3 that stores login passwords in plain text. In a recent newsletter, he claimed someone—we are guessing an ...