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.

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.

If you need a vault for your data, you don't have to resort to buying additional tools. Windows 11 Pro offers everything you need.

Apple makes it harder to make an external boot drive for your Mac than it has in the past, but sometimes you still need to do it. Here's how to do it in macOS Sequoia.