The practice of cloning is a time-tested standard operating procedure in many IT shops. It can assist in migrations and building test/lab environments, and it enhances system recovery processes. Due ...

Last week Microsoft released Disk2VHD, a utility produced by its Sysinternals acquisition to convert a physical Windows hard disk into a Virtual PC disk image. While handy, Microsoft is treading ...

Linux doesn't have quite as many disk cloning apps as Windows, but but you can do just about anything you can imagine with the super powerful Clonezilla live CD. Clonezilla's biggest advantage is its ...

Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather, it is a single, focused tool.

Technology is wonderful, until it stops working as expected. Computers have a nasty habit of developing glitches or just going belly up altogether at the worst possible times. There’s nothing that can ...

Among the many tools out there for cloning drives and performing full-system backups, one came to my attention for being both free (and open source) and powerful: Clonezilla, a product of the Free ...

Have you ever encountered an instance where you upgraded your computer only to discover that the deployment software does not support the new hardware? Well, to overcome this difficulty with ease, we ...