Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space ...

Bought an HP Stream 13 recently. It only has a 32GB (29GiB) "SSD" and roughly 8GiB of that is set-aside to the recovery partition. I went through the normal steps to create a recovery thumb drive, but ...

I've just ordered a Samsung NP900X3C, and would like to free myself up some space (mainly for importing photos when away). I'm happy to nuke the drive and start from scratch, I have win 8 licences (or ...

Recovery Drive is a special partition on the hard drive that usually contains all the required files that can fully restore your Windows PC in case your system becomes unstable for any reason. It is ...

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Installing OS X Lion sets up a hidden recovery partition on most systems, but if for some reason this is missing, then there are some options for restoring or otherwise using the functions this ...