Is a clean install your go-to for stubborn Windows issues? Think again. There are ample recovery options right at your ...

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.

Windows 11 Point-in-Time Restore lets you roll back updates, drivers, and settings fast without reinstalling Windows.

Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

Q: I presently use an external hard drive to backup important items from my PC. This requires manually saving the files to the external drive. I understand you refrain from recommending specific ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Microsoft is backtracking on plans to charge people ...

We never know when our hard drive will stop working, and we lose important data. It is a high risk of data loss during a cyber attack or natural disaster. Therefore, it is always a good idea to ...

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 ...

Though it’s a bit pricey for its genre, Ascomp’s BackUp Maker Professional is awash with advanced and automation features. I must admit, when I first found out that Ascomp’s BackUp Maker Professional ...

Veritas has updated its market heavyweight enterprise backup product, NetBackup, to version 9 with added support for storage scaling on demand. That elasticity – dubbed Flex Scale – comes with ...

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. There are many options for backing up databases, and ...

Windows 10 PCs can receive free security updates until October 2026. To qualify for free personal updates, enroll with a Microsoft account. Customers in any of the 30 EEA countries automatically ...