Reader Larry wrote me regarding his new Asus machine, which came without any kind of recovery disks (which would be used to restore Windows in the event of a major system meltdown). That’s not ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

Data loss can be absolutely heart wrenching. Fortunately, assuming your disk wasn't eaten by a wood chipper or struck by a wayward bolt of lightning, software tools are available to help you recover ...

Some of you may think ‘shift-deleted’ or ‘virus-deleted’ data will be lost forever, but in fact, most lost files can be recovered, including deleted data, and data saved in lost or damaged partitions.

But the cleanup effort continues. Microsoft estimates that around 8.5 million Windows systems were affected by the issue, which involved a buggy .sys file that was automatically pushed to Windows PCs ...