The cloning process involves moving data from one storage device to another (in this case, a hard drive) with an exact copy ...

A clone is a bootable backup of your Mac’s hard drive that provides redundancy for both your data and the Macintosh Operating System. Cloning is easy to do and is complementary to other backup methods ...

One way to speed up your computer is by swapping out your optical hard drive for a solid-state drive (an SSD). There’s a significant speed difference in this swap, because you’re moving from the ...

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 ...

The time comes all too soon when you will want to upgrade your computer. Agony of agonies, you will face the prospect of reinstalling all your programs -- a day-long job -- along with your data before ...

The most practical ways to move an operating system installation to a different hard drive are to either restore a system image or clone the old drive to the new drive. These methods will make a 1:1 ...

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I recently bought a new 1 TB NVMe SSD (970 Evo Plus) to upgrade from my current 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD. The current disk is LUKS encrypted using the default options were when I originally installed ...

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 ...

In an earlier tutorial, we explained how to clone the Tiger install DVD to a partition on an external FireWire disk. This is a good idea because the DVD is optical media, and optical media can have ...

It sometimes happens that, in an extreme situation, it is necessary to reinstall the system. We have, indeed, explained in a recent tutorial that this is not difficult or time-consuming, and that it ...

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 ...