Technology is wonderful, until it stops working as expected. Computers have a nasty habit of developing glitches or just going belly up altogether at the worst possible times. There’s nothing that can ...

Backing up data and restoring a crashed computer are two of those “I wish I hadda” moments in the life of every computer user. When you maintain a collection of computers for your job or organization, ...

The practice of cloning is a time-tested standard operating procedure in many IT shops. It can assist in migrations and building test/lab environments, and it enhances system recovery processes. Due ...

Now that I've downloaded it and started testing it, I'm really impressed with Clonezilla. Running as a “Linux live CD” iso image just over 100 megabytes large, one method touted is to operate it on a ...

Among the many tools out there for cloning drives and performing full-system backups, one came to my attention for being both free (and open source) and powerful: Clonezilla, a product of the Free ...

Although free disk imaging sounds enticing, Clonezilla Live isonly for more advanced users. The program runs off of a Linux LiveCD (or USB flash drive), and it worked perfectly for me. But to beblunt: ...

I decided to upgrade from a Crucial 128 GB m4 SSD (from about 2012) to a 256GB m550 (they were on sale last week), and wanted to clone my current installation (Win7 SP1 Pro) to the new drive using ...