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 ...

Copying files and folders is easy, but copying Windows itself requires very specific considerations. You may be experiencing instabilities or errors and want to swap your old system drive for a fresh ...

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 ...

Hard drives that have failed. Hard drives that will fail. Hard drives that were retired in the course of a computer upgrade before failure. In this TechBuilder Recipe, I&ll show you how to set up a ...

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 ...

Copying video from one external hard drive to another is just a drag and drop away. External hard drives serve as a storage device and don't actually perform any data-related tasks without receiving a ...

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 ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

If you have important data trapped on a computer that's not working, there are ways to recover it. You should already have a backup, but here's what you can do in an emergency. If you need to migrate ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...

For the love of GOD, stop trying to clone it. You're just killing it faster, and Ghost WILL NOT clone a drive that is failing. It's not a data recovery tool. Get "GetDataBack" from Runtime Software ...