When upgrading or changing the primary HDD/SSD in Windows, it’s painful if you need to install Windows 11/10 again. Not only does it take time, but it is also tedious to install Windows updates, ...

Every Windows PC can benefit from a spring cleaning. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be spring. If you can’t remember the last time you saved all your critical data, wiped your drive, and reinstalled a ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Among Windows experts, a clean install is a time-honored ritual, a way to wipe out accumulated cruft and restore an old PC to new life. You can find plenty of ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...

Windows Deployment Service (WDS) is a powerful tool that allows network-based installation of Windows OS to computers without needing physical media. This guide will walk us through installing and ...