Last week my SSD died, and once again I end up reinstalling Windows from scratch (OCZ reliability, not so good). I dual boot Windows and OS X. In OS X I use a program called Carbon Copy Cloner [1], ...

Ideally, I'd like to back up my Boot Camp Windows (NTFS) partition while booted from Mac OS X. I've been using Desik Utility to create weekly images of my Windows NTFS partition, and this works ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...

Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...

The worst-case scenario has befallen even the most careful computer user: a coffee mug spills on your laptop or an update wipes all your files and photos. Despite your best effort, accidents happen.