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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

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 ...

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'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 ...