A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

Hard drives fail, it happens. We explain how you can avoid data loss, but also how to restore lost data from a hard drive should the worst happen.

If your PC is operating perfectly right now, great! But getting ahead of any future PC fiascos with a recovery drive may save you from a major tech-induced headache later.

I have accidentally formatted the hard drive connected to my Windows PC. It has erased all my important files, including my wedding photos. Now I am looking for recovery methods to get those ...

Data stored on USB devices can sometimes be lost due to errors. If you find your files disappeared, don’t fret: it is possible to recover deleted files from a USB drive.