I knew something was wrong when I booted my 2012 MacBook Pro, walked away to get coffee and returned to find the computer had turned off. When I booted again, the grey screen appeared and the MacBook ...

Generally speaking, you don’t need to create a recovery partition for your Mac: since the launch of Lion (when Apple stopped selling boxed copies of its operating systems, so it knew buyers wouldn’t ...

The Toshiba Recovery Disk Creator utility creates a set of discs for returning your Toshiba laptop back to its original factory settings. The process is known as recovery, and wipes your laptop's hard ...

Is your Mac about to crash? Here's how to create a bootable USB flash drive with a working version of macOS, so you can access your hard drive in the event of a glitch. Our team tests, rates, and ...

If you don't want ever end locked out of your account, you should create a password recovery disk, and in this guide, I'll show you how on Windows 10. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

[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 ...

My T61 came with Vista, but I did a clean slate XP SP2 install from my own copy.<br><br>After spending 8 hours, I have finally got all the drivers working. Now, before I go on intalling any ...

One of the big changes ushered in by Apple with OS X Lion was the form of delivery. Since Lion was initially only available as a digital download, users no longer had a physical disc if they wanted to ...

How to create a Windows Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset image Your email has been sent Create a DaRT-enabled recovery image for either a USB drive or optical media ...

Reader Larry wrote me regarding his new Asus machine, which came without any kind of recovery disks (which would be used to restore Windows in the event of a major system meltdown). That’s not ...