A tiny multi boot USB setup that holds dozens of ISOs for live tools and installers, ready to revive any PC.

Some operating system issues might require IT to rebuild or restore the OS, so knowing how to build and use a bootable recovery partition is vital. In Windows ...

Stellar Partition Manager also enables you to create a bootable DVD that could be used to perform partitioning operations on the boot drive. You need to backup your important data before working on ...

Perhaps it is set to look for a partition on the SSD that doesn't exist because it's MBR, but it falls back to the HDD if the SSD isn't connected. Unplug the SSD and boot to a Windows installer, and ...

Reader Richard Lanier has a Windows issue—no, not that issue, but rather one involving size. He writes: I’m running Windows 7 in a Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro. When I first configured Boot ...

Most of the best tools for fixing your PC are portable.

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...