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 ...

Every computer user who uses the computer on a regular basis knows and understands the value of his data. No matter what the situation is, he makes every possible attempt to protect it from any sort ...

When a system goes down in your office, a properly maintained recovery partition can get you up and going again in just a few minutes. In HP computers, this recovery partition is normally created on ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have an HP desktop with Windows Vista 32 bit and I want to use Visual Studio 2013 which only works on Windows 7. I have ordered a Windows 7 SP1 64 bit clean install disk and I plan to reformat the C ...

I spent a good deal of the afternoon diving in where no sane person really wants to spend a lot of time -- in my Lion recovery partition. It's not hard to get there, and it's quite a curious place ...

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 ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

Sorry for the convoluted title. I came into possession of a laptop that I want to install a copy of vista 64 on. It should work with all the hardware and software. In case it does not I would like to ...