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 ...

ok i had copied all the files from the c-drive of my old dying pc to a new pc however I did not do a clone so I just have the files (all files including hidden ones) in my new c-drive. Ofcourse since ...

Sorry if I didn't make things clear enough, I thought I did. I looked back at my OP and I described the drive/O/S in question. The other bootable drive wasn't/isn't the issue. The 2TB is a W7 Pro ...

Everyone needs a partition management tool. Windows ships with its own limited tool, accessible under Disk Management, but it’s restricted in a number of key areas, not least its inability to move ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...