Tag: GHOST

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 ...

We received a question from one of our readers the other day asking about an easy way to resize his 500GB data drive to make room for a Windows 7 install. This got me thinking about two tools that I've been using a lot lately: Easeus Partition Manager and Macrium Reflect. If you play with a lot of operating systems, keeping a good set of images (or a stockpile of extra hard drives) around is a ...

The only thing better than free software is commercial software that you can pick up for free (legally, we're not talking shady BitTorrent downloads here). And right now you can pick up a full copy for Norton Ghost 12.0 for free after rebates from Buy.com. Norton Ghost is a commercial application that lets you perform a complete backup of your computer. If your PC crashes, you can use Ghost to ...

Partition-Saving is awkwardly named but incredibly useful app for transferring the bits of one drive to the space on another drive. It's kind of like Norton Ghost, but free. The utility works in DOS only, and I think would be excellent for techs of any stripe. Partition-Saving can also save parts of a drive, like the Master Boot Record or partition tables. The documentation is extensive, and I ...