Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

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 ...

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've got a Dell laptop stuck in a System Repair loop on Windows 7. It never boots to the Windows install. Every time it starts up, it goes to the automated system repair tool (even if I get a chance ...

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 ...

If you're looking to rebuild, restore, or simply troubleshoot your laptop, it can be very helpful to understand how to boot your computer into a Recovery Partition. By default, many computer ...

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 spent a good deal of the afternoon diving in where no sane person really wants to spend a lot of time -- in my Lion recovery partition. It's not hard to get there, and it's quite a curious place ...

As we showed you in our step-by-step tutorial, creating a Boot Camp partition on your Mac to install Windows is easy. The tedious part of the installation is taking Windows through its initial setup ...

In this post, we will describe the possible solutions for The system image restore failed, error code 0x80042407 error which you may see when you try to create or ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Lazesoft announces Recovery Suite 5.0 with its new System Backup feature, enabling complete and scheduled backups of ...