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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern Dell computers ship with a hidden partition on the hard drive that's often no more than a couple of gigabytes in size. The partition contains recovery software used to perform maintenance tasks ...

Struggling with a corrupted GPT bootloader in Windows 11? Discover step-by-step methods to repair it quickly and get your PC ...

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 ...

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

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 ...