Having a backup of your computer’s hard drive is very useful. Imagine that you have to sell your computer, but you don’t want to spend an entire day burning DVDs or reinstalling software, and you ...

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It’s inevitable: at some point you’re going to need to recover from a disaster. You’ll have an old hard drive fail and either you’ll lose valuable data, or the machine will refuse to boot. When this ...

Good backups are essential for every Mac user. Tools such as Apple’s Time Machine, included as part of OS X, make it easy to store multiple versions of every file from your computer on an external ...

If you're still using a hard drive as your main boot drive, you could really benefit from moving Windows to another drive — preferably a solid-state drive. To keep your existing data as is but enjoy ...

Hard drive cloning and disk-imaging software is infinitely useful for end users and IT managers alike. Whether you’re just making a hard drive recovery partition , blasting full images to dozens of ...

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If you are wondering why copying files or a Bootable USB drive won’t work, then the answer is that copying will not make the drive bootable. Windows the computer starts, it looks for an entry point ...

Tom Luoma asked why I often recommend backing up your hard drive with imaging software, but never mention cloning software. Cloning and imaging are similar in that they can both make exact copies of ...

Last week my SSD died, and once again I end up reinstalling my Boot Camp Windows from scratch (OCZ reliability, not so good). I dual boot Windows and OS X. In OS X I use Carbon Copy Cloner [1] to ...