You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications.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

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 ...

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 ...

Technology is wonderful, until it stops working as expected. Computers have a nasty habit of developing glitches or just going belly up altogether at the worst possible times. There's nothing that can ...

If you’ve forgotten your Windows password, there are several utilities to reset it. One of them is Windows’ own System Recovery Disk. As a side note, this password reset trick, which takes just ten ...

Update: Windows expert Ed Bott offers a whole lot more information on System Restore, Shadow Copy and this tip on Vista. Be sure to check it out before you follow our half-researched, cockeyed advice.

Q: I just bought a new computer loaded with Windows 7, and there was no backup disk in the box. When I checked the store where I bought it, I was told that operating system and system recovery CDs are ...

Windows comes with a built-in repair environment called the Recovery Environment. Unfortunately, it is possible for the recovery environment to become inaccessible. The same tools can be accessed by ...

In addition to the recovery tools available in Win2K, Windows XP includes yet another feature known as Automated System Recovery (ASR). If Safe Mode Option and Last Known Good aren’t sufficient to do ...

The most powerful file-recovery software we've seen for modern Windows system. Compared to its freeware competitor, Recuva, it found and recovered a larger number of deleted files. Of course, if ...