Microsoft Windows has system recovery options available through an advanced startup menu. When powering on the computer, you can enter the startup menu and select the system recovery options you need.

The Windows Vista DVD includes System Recovery Options, which is a set of utilities designed to restore or repair the operating system. Most computer manufacturers no longer ship recovery discs or the ...

If used properly, new features built into Windows 11 offer safe, nearly complete backup, restore, repair, and recovery operations without third-party tools — but there are some caveats worth knowing.

If you have bought an OEM computer and you, for some reason, need to restore it back to factory settings, then this post will show you how to restore the factory image to your Windows 11/10 OEM PC via ...

I did something really stupid that resulted in me not being able to access my harddrive. I have a fully encrypted system drive using Truecrypt. I wade a registry change that should not have affected ...

Microsoft offers an easy method to recover Windows devices when encountering fatal issues that prevent them from booting up – Quick Machine Recovery. It searches the cloud server for resolutions and ...

Microsoft is expanding the toolbox of recovery options for Windows 11. After recently adding the ability to reinstall Windows via Windows Update—at least in version 24H2—the company is now introducing ...

How to restore a system image in Windows Server 2012 Your email has been sent John Joyner explains how to use the Windows Server 2012 built-in backup application to restore a system image. The Windows ...

Snapshots are virtual copies that can rapidly recover data but depending on the approach can have very different performance characteristics. Snapshots are a very popular way to create virtual copies ...