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 ...

I spent a good deal of the afternoon diving in where no sane person really wants to spend a lot of time -- in my Lion recovery partition. It's not hard to get there, and it's quite a curious place ...

You mightn't think it, but the Windows 11 Recovery Environment is genuinely powerful.

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 ...

If you cannot boot into Windows Recovery Environment, use the fixes provided below: Check the status of the Windows Recovery Environment Use other methods to enter the Windows Recovery Environment ...

If your Recovery HD partition in OS X Lion is missing or not working, then it may be easy to get working with just a few steps. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...

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 ...

Apple’s new MacBook Air models don’t ship with OS X Lion on a USB thumb drive like they used to. That diminutive little white wedge of flash storage is gone, no where to be found inside of the box ...

Here's how you can boot into Mac OS X Lion's recovery partition in case you need to reinstall Mac OS X, restore from a Time Machine backup or just figure out what's wrong with your system.