Sony VAIO computers include a hidden partition on the hard drive that contains all of the data needed to reinstall Windows. VAIO Recovery Center, the software on the partition, can restore the entire ...

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 ...

I have an HP desktop with Windows Vista 32 bit and I want to use Visual Studio 2013 which only works on Windows 7. I have ordered a Windows 7 SP1 64 bit clean install disk and I plan to reformat the C ...

Installing OS X Lion sets up a hidden recovery partition on most systems, but if for some reason this is missing, then there are some options for restoring or otherwise using the functions this ...

The hidden recovery partition on your HP computer lets you restore your business machine back to its factory default condition. The recovery program resides on its own partition, so it is accessible ...

Apple's Recovery partition for OS X Lion contains a number of utilities, but you can only open one at a time. Here is how to open multiple utilities at the same time to ease your troubleshooting and ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

I'm planning to clone only the small system partition of a 750G disk, and restoring it to an empty 500G disk. There's a large data partition on the 750G disk I don't care about. The question is, how ...