Tag: CLONING

Easeus Partition Manager became one of my go-to drive utilities after the first time I used it. They're now offering a hard drive cloning utility, and it's just as handy. Unlike Partition Manager, there's only one version of Todo Backup, and it's totally free to use in any environment. You can clone drives and create images of your partitions all from the comfort of your Windows desktop. ...

Paragon has long been a name respected by technicians and IT professionals. Their latest release is aimed squarely at home users, and it's a program well worth trying out. Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition is an excellent, multi-talented hard drive management app. So, what can you do with it? For starters, it will create and restore images of your hard drives and partitions. There's also ...

O&O makes a ton of great software, and they're doing a great job of releasing native 64-bit versions of their apps - like DiskImage. Like Macrium Reflect and DriveImage XML, DiskImage runs right in Windows. It performs well, imaging my C: drive's 70GB several minutes faster than Reflect. DiskImage has some other very cool features, like the ability to mount images as a virtual drive, burn ...

...when her computer crashes. Jason's writeup of PMS Buddy inspired me to write a sort of Public Service Announcement. Since I'm sure a lot of our loyal readers are "the friend that knows about computers," I thought I'd share some programs that I should've used long before my wife's hard drive took a dirt nap. Prepping a close one's computer for a catastrophic event is kind of like stockpiling ...

Hard drive prices are so low now that it really makes sense to use an imaging program. That way you've got a perfectly cloned backup of your system exactly the way you have it configured in case of a crash, which is much more convenient than reinstalling Windows, activating, and loading all your applications all over again. Here are four great apps to get the job done - without spending a ...