The simplest way to clone the disk is with a dual HDD/SSD dock. Almost every dual dock has a cloning function built in. Insert the HDD into the Source bay and the SSD into the Target bay. Long press ...

Want to move your OS from an HDD to an SSD or copy data to a different drive? Here's how to do it safely. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has ...

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 ...

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 ...

You're planning on upgrading your hard drive, but there's one small problem: How do you get your data from the old hard drive to the new one, without reinstalling ...

Backing up data and restoring a crashed computer are two of those “I wish I hadda” moments in the life of every computer user. When you maintain a collection of computers for your job or organization, ...

It’s inevitable: at some point you’re going to need to recover from a disaster. You’ll have an old hard drive fail and either you’ll lose valuable data, or the machine will refuse to boot. When this ...

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 ...

Upgrading a drive on your PC is generally not that difficult, but it can be tricky to move over the data, and more importantly, the operating system, to the new drive. It's recommended that you ...

Backup is important for anyone who uses a computer, but there are times when we need to clone the drive for various reasons. While there is no direct feature to clone a hard drive in the Disk ...