You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

Use Windows 7 System Image Recovery to restore a hard disk Your email has been sent In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to use System Image Recovery to revive an ...

Update: Windows expert Ed Bott offers a whole lot more information on System Restore, Shadow Copy and this tip on Vista. Be sure to check it out before you follow our half-researched, cockeyed advice.

Q: I just bought a new computer loaded with Windows 7, and there was no backup disk in the box. When I checked the store where I bought it, I was told that operating system and system recovery CDs are ...

If you’ve forgotten your Windows password, there are several utilities to reset it. One of them is Windows’ own System Recovery Disk. As a side note, this password reset trick, which takes just ten ...

Sam McCurry wisely created an image backup of his internal drive. Now he wants to know how that backup can help him should Windows fail to boot. An image backup copies the complete contents of your ...

Follow these solutions to fix Error 0x80042414, The system Image Restore Failed, and Windows did not find any disk in Windows 11/10. Disable RAID in your BIOS (if ...

Discover the best disk imaging software for data backup, disaster recovery, system migration, and system deployment purposes, as we analyse the best providers in the business. Disk imaging software is ...

Microsoft Corp.’s System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) will be ready for prime time in the third quarter, the vendor is expected to announce today. Microsoft has completed production of its ...

Windows comes with a built-in repair environment called the Recovery Environment. Unfortunately, it is possible for the recovery environment to become inaccessible. The same tools can be accessed by ...

Old software restore CD's used to be machine specific, (I've seen green and orange ones, and they have the machine type written on the CD's, but the new iMacs may just come with OS CD's in which case ...