A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

Hard drives fail, it happens. We explain how you can avoid data loss, but also how to restore lost data from a hard drive should the worst happen.

If you do manage to boot from Recovery, you’ll need another drive to recover files to. You should plan to get an external drive plugged in as soon as you can, so that you can secure your data there.

Almost every computer user has experienced reformatting a USB drive. However, there are times when you suddenly realize that there are essential files in there. An unfortunate event like this can ...

Here's what really happens when you delete a file and why it isn't always possible to recover deleted files from an SSD or HDD.

If your PC is operating perfectly right now, great! But getting ahead of any future PC fiascos with a recovery drive may save you from a major tech-induced headache later.

To change default hard drive from C: to D: in Windows 11/10, change the default save location for apps and files, move user ...