There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...

So, I've got a G5, and its internal drive seems to have been somewhat corrupted. When it tries to boot, it just shows the spinner for 15 minutes or so as the fans grow ever-louder. I can boot off the ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. Finally, we come to a boot disc that offers useful tools, is easyto use, and can be created from ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

What is a boot disk and why do I need one? A boot disk is a floppy or a CD that you can use to boot your computer into a state in which you can use it to fix a problem. There will be times that your ...

I have a laptop running a fully licensed version of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. For some reason, the boot partition has become corrupted. I didn't get a Windows 7 disc or a recovery disc with the install.