So I just got myself a spankin' new Toshiba Qosmio laptop, which comes preinstalled with XP MCE 2005. <br><br>Well, like any good geek, I want to dual-boot linux with it. So I pop in the recovery CD, ...

Bare-metal recovery is also one of the biggest features missing from Windows itself. There's no native way to make a system-wide backup and then restore it in one step if things go wrong. Granted, ...

Note: This file is no longer available. PC Worldregrets any inconvenience. It looked like Microsoft was finally going to do the rightthing. Beta versions of Vista SP1 came with a modern equivalent ...

Apple on Monday released a utility that builds a Lion recovery disk on a USB flash drive, giving users a way to restore their Macs if the machine’s hard drive fails ...

In the April, 2010, issue of PC World, and back in December here at the old Hassle-Free PC Blog, I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step ...

Steven Gold writes "The new 'bootable OS X disaster recovery' CD supplied in Retrospect 5.1 is currently incapable of booting 'Old World' machines such as the Wallstreet PowerBook and Beige G3s. Dantz ...

Getting the Recovery Discs for my X31 was a nightmare (and still unsuccessful, even after paying them the money). First time the sent me a stack of discs, 1 or 2 of which were unreadable (these were ...

Acer has posted a disc image on its FTP site with everything you need to restore an Acer Aspire One mini-laptop with Linpus Linux Lite to its factory default ...