Apple has just made it easier for users to recover their files if they experience a hard drive crash with the release of its new Lion Recovery Disk Assistant.
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant creates a disk using any external hard drive or thumb drive of more than 1 GB. If a user’s drive crashes, he can run diagnostics and have the drive running again.
Before Apple released this disk assistant, users had to let their Mac download OS X Lion from Apple servers and re-install it. The process took a long time and only worked properly if the user’s hard drive worked after the crash.
Read more at Business Insider. Plus tips from Inc. on what to do when you lose your computer.
