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 ...

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 ...

Buying a new laptop or a better hard drive is always fun, but the part we all dread is migrating all the data from one device to another. Luckily, there is no shortage of ways in which this can be ...

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 ...

Upgrading a drive on your PC is generally not that difficult, but it can be tricky to move over the data, and more importantly, the operating system, to the new drive. It's recommended that you ...

So let's say I have a hard drive with quite a bit of stuff on it. And now I want to move on over to a bigger hard drive. I read about how I could clone a hard drive, and then put that image onto a new ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

A hard drive image, or system image, is an exact clone of a system containing the operating system, installed programs, settings and data. More beneficial than a simple file backup, a system image ...

Given the kinds of comments that I'm getting (mostly through email) I've come to the conclusion that having a few "back to basics" posts on here might be worthwhile to a lot of readers. Sure, if ...

I made a big fancy image with all kinds of specific programs and settings. Well, I made a Macrium Reflect image of it and a full clone of it. Neither will boot when put in/on a new machine. They load ...

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Hard drives that have failed. Hard drives that will fail. Hard drives that were retired in the course of a computer upgrade before failure. In this TechBuilder Recipe, I&ll show you how to set up a ...