There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

Missing folders? Unreadable files? Corrupted hard drive? Sooner or later, most PC users lose data of some kind. Here’s a series of steps you can take in Windows 11 (or 10) to bring things back. Sadly, ...

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When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

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 ...