If you're looking to rebuild, restore, or simply troubleshoot your laptop, it can be very helpful to understand how to boot your computer into a Recovery Partition. By default, many computer ...

If when you attempt to create a recovery drive using a USB drive on your Windows 11/10 computer but receive the error message; We can’t create a Recovery drive on ...

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 ...

Since the accompanying error message states A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive, you may try the following suggestions and see if that helps to ...

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 ...

Create a recovery and master CD by burning the contents of the hidden tattoo partition into a CD. There is an established protection system to prevent re-use of OS and driver software on other systems ...

I need to replace the internal drive in an iMac (I've done this before - on this iMac - without any troubles) but this time (in a dry run) I can't get the iMac to boot from an external recovery ...

Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

What do you do if you purchased Lion from the Mac App Store, have no installation disc or USB key, and are suddenly faced with a hard drive catastrophe? In lieu of begging Apple for your very own Lion ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...