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 ...

I've got a Dell laptop stuck in a System Repair loop on Windows 7. It never boots to the Windows install. Every time it starts up, it goes to the automated system repair tool (even if I get a chance ...

If Windows keeps assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition on your system, this post will show you how to fix it. A recovery partition is a special partition that contains the Windows ...

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 ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since Windows 10 started having buggy updates for the recovery partition that they claimed wouldn't work properly due to size issues (even if size was not actually an issue), which started years ...