CLONING THE DRIVE

Posted on October 8th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach

There are dozens of backup programs and services, many of them free. But most of these, like Google Drive, Dropbox and Skydrive, just backup your files, not your programs. Well, people want to save their programs, so let’s go further To back up a whole computer drive, everything included, you need what’s called a cloning program. You’ll be glad you did it if the computer goes down in a really serious way and you want your programs back. Mac users have a utility program called “Time Machine” that does that. Windows 7 and Windows Vista users can use the operating system’s own “system image” routine to clone the drive. Click “start” on the home screen, then “help and support.” Type […]

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