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 ...

Sony VAIOs include a multi-purpose application called VAIO Care that enables administrators to back up and restore files, perform troubleshooting and diagnostic tests, and recover Windows. Computer ...

You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications.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. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

Like it or not, Windows 10 will occasionally fail or falter, to the point where it won’t run and won’t boot. That’s when it’s time to bring out a rescue or recovery tool often called a ...

One of the initial criticisms leveled against Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was that, because it’s currently available only from the Mac App Store (a $69 USB drive version is slated to become available this ...

Use Windows 7 System Image Recovery to restore a hard disk Your email has been sent In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to use System Image Recovery to revive an ...

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 ...

[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 ...

I've gotten an SSD to replace the disk in my MBP. I decided to get the largest drive I could so I could keep the DVD drive for the moment. I may swap the current hard drive back in at some later date.

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 ...