Especially if you install and uninstall applications all the time, conflicts may happen that lead to weird behavior, such as an increase of CPU usage even up to 100% for no obvious reason whatever. How would you find the cause and decide what to do? You’d better start from what is simpler. Start Windows in […]
Tag: disk image
Nothing easier than making images of your system, provided you choose a convenient program. As for myself, I’ve found mainly two easy and powerful backup, imaging and cloning tools, Macrium Reflect and Aomei Backupper. You can try both of them to decide what to keep, but if you had to choose only one, it would […]
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. Features: Backup logical drives and partitions to image files; Browse these images, view and extract files; Restore these images to the same or a different drive; Copy directly from drive to drive; Schedule automatic backups with […]
I can’t recommend Macrium Reflect enough. Is a totally reliable and easy to use free tool that may save you from disasters, in case some mistakes lead to severe problems with your PC that you cannot solve. Macrium Reflect will help you to clone your disk. If you think that you don’t need it, because […]
Just finished transferring Windows to a Solid State Drive (SSD) using a disk image instead of re-installing everything, I thought others might find useful some information on that, and avoid mistakes that I made. Let me just say how great this change was, programs run so much faster now on the SSD, even InDesign, that […]
Raw Copy is a free program that will copy a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. It is designed for people who have a faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This sort of copy saves the need […]
Two types of Clonezilla are available, live and SE (server edition) and both are free. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore, while Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment; it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. […]
Here is a quick guide on how you can replace safely your system hard disk, i.e. the disk where Windows is installed, moving everything into a new, larger, disk, in order to avoid re-installing Windows and your programs. You cannot have the same results by just copying and pasting the contents of the old disk […]