If used properly, new features built into Windows 11 offer safe, nearly complete backup, restore, repair, and recovery operations without third-party tools — but there are some caveats worth knowing.

PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...

While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

I wanted to have a few things clarified before I start using NTbackup ... I can make images thru NTBackup when windows 2000 is running ... but I backup so that when 2000 fails, I just restore the ...

How much do you trust your backups? It’s an important question, and one that few businesses think to ask themselves until ...

In this post, we will describe the possible solutions for The system image restore failed, error code 0x80042407 error which you may see when you try to create or ...

Instant recovery makes backups directly accessible for quick restoration of files but also enables checking whether the backup system itself is actually working. The concept of instant recovery is ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...