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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...