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 ...

Windows 8 and 10 have a built-in tool to create a rescue disk, aka Recovery Drive. First of all, let’s be clear about what the recovery disk is. It’s not an image of your entire OS ...

4. Click ‘Create a system repair disc’ at the upper left in Backup and Restore. 5. Select your target DVD drive in the resulting ‘Create a system repair disc’ dialog box.

In that case you’ll need a recovery disk stored on a removable storage medium. We’ve got a separate article showing how to create a Mac recovery disk .) Do a clean install of macOS ...

The Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 each come in different storage capacities. The Surface 2 can be purchased as a 32GB or 64GB model. The Surface Pro 2 can be purchased in sizes ranging ...

Reader Larry wrote me regarding his new Asus machine, which came without any kind of recovery disks (which would be used to restore Windows in the event of a major system meltdown). That’s not ...

Lion Recovery Disk Assistant will install the Lion Recovery partition to external media so you can create another boot disk. It requires OS X 10.7 Lion with a Recovery HD. Apple says in order to use ...

Download the Windows 11 installer as a disk image file (in ISO format), use the built-in Windows Recovery Media Creator utility to create a bootable recovery drive, and copy the Windows ...

If it’s master boot record (MBR) formatted, you need to open the Disk Management utility in Windows 10 (diskmgmt.msc), right-click the repair/recovery partition on its home drive therein, and ...

If you already have a Windows installation disc, then you may not need to create a System Repair or Recovery Disc in Windows 11/10. But if you do not have one, then it is better to create and keep ...