"Using dd you can create backups of an entire harddisk or just a parts of it. This is also usefull to quickly copy installations to similar machines. It will only work on disks that are exactly the ...

Windows: If you're tired of managing five or six different live CDs for testing and troubleshooting, free program XBoot will help you merge them all onto one DVD or thumb drive with simple ...

If you are wondering why copying files or a Bootable USB drive won’t work, then the answer is that copying will not make the drive bootable. Windows the computer starts, it looks for an entry point ...

The fact that a USB drive can be written to is both a benefit and a drawback — on one hand, it isn’t as resistant to intrusion as a read-only CD, but on the other hand, you can save configuration ...

Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable USB flash recovery drive that can be used to troubleshoot a Windows 8 computer that is unable to start. A recovery drive is the same as a startup repair ...

Robert Spann asked how best to copy everything on his internal drive. Should he image the drive, or clone it? Cloning copies the complete contents of one drive—the files, the partition tables and the ...

R-Drive Image offers a ton of great backup features, including disaster recovery and newly expanded support for all the most popular online storage services. But its former bulletproof nature has ...

Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...