One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

You may find it useful to set up a recovery partition in case your Windows partition ends up being corrupted or no longer available. Follow the lead and you will get a fresh recovery partition in just ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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 ...

Whenever Windows 7 had problems, you could just insert your Windows 7 installation CD and run its recovery tools. Most Windows 8 users, however, don't have an installation CD. Here's how to make a ...

Reader Kai Peterson installed a copy of Yosemite but seems to be missing something. He writes: I installed a clean copy of Yosemite on an external hard drive, which I cloned to another Mac using the ...