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 ...

What is a boot disk and why do I need one? A boot disk is a floppy or a CD that you can use to boot your computer into a state in which you can use it to fix a problem. There will be times that your ...

[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 ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

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 ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

The hidden recovery partition on your HP computer lets you restore your business machine back to its factory default condition. The recovery program resides on its own partition, so it is accessible ...

For Mac OS X Lion users paranoid about traveling without carrying an emergency boot disk for their computer, worry no longer. Even if you have already hacked your own installer on a USB thumb drive, ...

Lion, Apple’s latest update to Mac OS X, has modest improvements in many areas, but few marquee features for veteran users. Jeff Carlson detailed those (Personal Technology, July 23), and explained ...

If you use any test environments with your vSphere environment, you are likely very familiar with sending the Ctrl+Alt+Insert keystroke to a system when viewing the console. In my lab, I have done a ...