Most new computers purchased from big manufacturers in recent years come with a "System Restore" disk, rather than an actual copy of Windows. I've never liked using the default load that comes on a ...

Old software restore CD's used to be machine specific, (I've seen green and orange ones, and they have the machine type written on the CD's, but the new iMacs may just come with OS CD's in which case ...

While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

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, ...

System Restore is a long-standing feature on Windows 11. Its purpose is to create snapshots of the computer's current working state and save them as "restore points" when specific events are triggered ...

Windows 11 Point-in-Time Restore lets you roll back updates, drivers, and settings fast without reinstalling Windows.

A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.