I'm in the process of replacing the HDD of my partner's laptop with an SDD. I've made the clone but it will be a few more weeks before she'll allow me to open the laptop and swap a few things out, so ...

I decided to upgrade from a Crucial 128 GB m4 SSD (from about 2012) to a 256GB m550 (they were on sale last week), and wanted to clone my current installation (Win7 SP1 Pro) to the new drive using ...

The best disk cloning software is one of the best ways to make a replica or a 'clone' of a hard drive. There are a few reasons you might want to do this, like creating a backup or distributing a drive ...

I clone my boot drive fairly regularly. I'm often building a PC for the PC Gamer Magazine or testing a new system for review, and my options are clone my existing test bench drive with all the games, ...

When it comes to creating a perfect copy of a system disk for future restoration, Lifehacker readers love the open source and versatile Clonezilla. It can't do real-time mirroring like the second and ...

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.

Although free disk imaging sounds enticing, Clonezilla Live isonly for more advanced users. The program runs off of a Linux LiveCD (or USB flash drive), and it worked perfectly for me. But to beblunt: ...