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 ...

It is always advisable to create recovery media when installing a new operating system or upgrading the existing one. In the event of a system failure, you can always boot the computer with the ...

Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable USB flash recovery drive that can be used to troubleshoot a Windows 8 computer that is unable to start. A recovery drive is the same as a startup repair ...

Windows 10 offers two ways to create a Recovery Drive: on a USB flash drive and on an optical disc. This walk-through demonstrates both methods. A Recovery Drive lets you boot your system and easily ...

How do you recover from a dead internal hard drive or SSD? Or if Windows becomes so messed up it’s useless or even unbootable? You can always reinstall Windows from ...

How to create a USB recovery drive for Windows 11 Your email has been sent Whether you are running a new Windows 11 PC, or an older PC updated to Windows 11 from Windows 10, according to Murphy’s Law, ...

Every time Microsoft releases a new feature update for Windows 10, you should build a new recovery drive containing the setup files for that update. You can use that ...

Arthur Eardley tried to do what he knew he should do—create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. But Windows’ automated process for creating this drive failed. If you’re running Windows 10, you need to create ...

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 ...