Beginning with 10.7 Lion, Apple stopped distribution of OS X through the usual DVD optical media. Being the first OS deployed specifically through the Mac App Store, a recovery partition was created ...

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 ...

Sony VAIO computers include a hidden partition on the hard drive that contains all of the data needed to reinstall Windows. VAIO Recovery Center, the software on the partition, can restore the entire ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm planning to clone only the small system partition of a 750G disk, and restoring it to an empty 500G disk. There's a large data partition on the 750G disk I don't care about. The question is, how ...

Recovery Drive is a special partition on the hard drive that usually contains all the required files that can fully restore your Windows PC in case your system becomes unstable for any reason. It is ...

Generally speaking, you don’t need to create a recovery partition for your Mac: since the launch of Lion (when Apple stopped selling boxed copies of its operating systems, so it knew buyers wouldn’t ...

Reader Kai Peterson installed a copy of Yosemite but seems to be missing something. He writes: I installed a clean copy of Yosemite on an external hard drive, which I cloned to another Mac using the ...