data backup

Windows 11 has gained a recovery tool that changes the meaning of “restore point” in a significant—and potentially risky—way. Point-in-time restore can roll a PC back to a recent local snapshot containing not only Windows, applications, and settings, but also the files stored on the system...

IT should enable Windows 11 Point-in-Time Restore only in a controlled pilot, not across the fleet. The feature becomes operationally valuable only after an organization proves the entire recovery chain: entering Windows Recovery Environment, retrieving a BitLocker recovery key, finding a usable...

Windows 11 lets users inspect a drive’s basic health in Settings by pressing Win + i and opening System > Storage > Advanced storage settings > Disks & volumes, where supported hardware can report status, estimated remaining life, available spare capacity, and current temperature before failure...

When Windows 11 reports low spare capacity or degraded reliability, back up important files immediately and plan to replace the affected storage device. If Windows reports that the drive is set to read-only, back up accessible data immediately; do not assume CHKDSK will remove the warning. Use...

Microsoft's firm denial that the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 security update (commonly tracked in the community as KB5063878) caused a wave of reported SSD failures closes one public chapter of the story — but it does not close the technical questions or the practical risks that remain for users...

If you’ve ever stared at two small drives in File Explorer and wished they were a single, larger disk, Windows 11 gives you a handful of built‑in ways to make that happen — but the easiest trick (delete one partition, extend the other) has important limits and risks. Back up first, understand...

Microsoft Edge's Collections feature is being retired in preview builds, and the abrupt migration choices Microsoft provides are leaving many users scrambling to preserve thumbnails, clipped images, and inline notes that will not survive the conversion to Favorites or the CSV export option...

Microsoft Edge is showing an in‑product warning in preview builds that Collections is being retired, and that message forces a blunt choice: move pages to Favorites (losing images and notes) or export a CSV copy — leaving no way to keep Collections content inside Edge in its original form once...