As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

Can anyone point me to a guide on how to upgrade the HDD on my T40 without losing the recovery partition?<BR><BR>I've disabled the pre-desktop area but Acronis True Image does not recognise the ...

If Windows keeps assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition on your system, this post will show you how to fix it. A recovery partition is a special partition that contains the Windows ...

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 ...

When you open the Disk Management app, you may find multiple Recovery Partitions. You may wonder why are there multiple Recovery Partitions? Can I remove or merge the Recovery Partitions in Windows 11 ...

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 ...

Modern Dell computers ship with a hidden partition on the hard drive that's often no more than a couple of gigabytes in size. The partition contains recovery software used to perform maintenance tasks ...

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 ...

What happens if your Lion-powered Mac runs out of lives? Not just a kernel panic; we're talking about a hard drive failure that results in the loss of Apple's OS X Lion's Recovery HD. Now that we've ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...

To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...