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 ...

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 ...

There are many ways to clone a drive on Mac OS X, but none quite as simple and effective as Carbon Copy Cloner. It's our top pick for disk cloning utilities because it gets the job done any which way ...

With a new version of Mac OS X—10.4, “Tiger”—recently being released, a popular topic has been backing up your hard drive. As Joe Kissell noted in his recent Macworld excerpt from Take Control of ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. There are plenty of great services that can back up your ...

What do people use to image/clone a hard drive that has both a Windows BootCamp and a Mac OS partition?<BR><BR>I got the 320 GB 7,200 rpm drive in my 17” MacBook Pro and now there is a 500 GB 7,200 ...

This week I experienced a bit of panic when my laptop stopped recognizing its own hard drive and refused to boot up. Fortunately, I maintain a backup of all of my data. (We’re a little obsessed with ...

I have an older laptop with a 30 GB hard drive.<BR><BR>What I would like to do is somehow image this hard drive so I can use it as a virtual machine on my Macbook (using Parallels or VBox).<BR><BR>I ...

Last June, I wrote about SuperDuper 1.5.5 ( ), which I’ve found to be the best way to make a bit-for-bit-identical clone of a Mac OS X volume. A clone is a great approach to backing up your hard drive ...