I am surprised how irresponsible some sites can be, suggesting a fresh install of USB drivers after uninstalling the current ones! If you uninstall your USB hubs, you won’t be able to use your mouse and keyboard — and especially your keyboard is necessary to login (write your pin or password) and install new drivers […]
Tag: System Image
I’ve been using both of these programs for a while, the free versions only, and I wondered which might be the best of the two? Let me say from the start that whichever you may use, Macrium or Aomei, you can’t go wrong! They are both great and reliable applications. Macrium Reflect Free seems a […]
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 […]
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 […]
In this post I will help you to get back your system, restoring it without the need of Windows Recovery, and then I will propose a way (that I follow myself) for better safety measures in the future, always using free applications. First of all, you need to convert the system image Windows created, in […]
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 […]
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. […]
MiniTool ShadowMaker is a free program that lets you create an image of your system to restore it if for some reason your PC becomes unusable. A commercial edition offers more options, such as scheduled backups, remote PC management, custom backup schemes, etc., but the free one is just fine if you only want to […]
Easeus Todo Backup is a free backup and restore solution, with detailed instruction wizards. It can backup your system partition to quickly get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or hardware failure. It allows you to backup and restore disk or partition after viruses attack, unstable software download, hard […]
Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a free antivirus method you can use to boot a heavily infected PC and clean it easily and safely. In my opinion, the best way to clean a seriously infected PC is to restore a system image, which of course means that you create system images or “clone” your OS as […]