CliffSees is about to upgrade his PC to Windows 7. He asked the Answer Line forum if he can upgrade his PC’s recover partition, as well. Most PCs today ship with two partitions on the hard drive. The ...

To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...

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 ...

If you’re getting partition errors, then all you may need to recover your data is this effective utility. Though it’s limited to partition recovery operations (damaged oroverwritten), Active@ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's Recovery partition for OS X Lion contains a number of utilities, but you can only open one at a time. Here is how to open multiple utilities at the same time to ease your troubleshooting and ...

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 ...

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 ...