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 ...

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 ...

I will have to grab some screenshots from my computer when I get home, but this has been bugging me for a few days, and my searches have not turned up the information I need yet, though it's gotten me ...

This week I've been: building a new gaming PC for the next issue of PC Gamer magazine. It's a beauty, too, using the new Asus ProArt PA401 chassis and golden RAM... yes, golden! Last week I was: ...

Hard drive cloning is the technical process of creating a one-to-one copy of a hard disk drive or SSD (Solid State Drive) and all the files comprising it. When it comes to why cloning is required? The ...

A whimsical wordsmith at Game Rant, crafting pixelated odysseys from a lifelong love for gaming and a diet of 1UP mushrooms. The Steam Deck is by far the best handheld gaming console available, ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Earlier this week, I told you how installing an SSD in an old Windows 10 laptop has been the best and worst upgrade I've ever done. It was the best because the SSD gave that older machine a second ...

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 ...

Good backups are essential for every Mac user. Tools such as Apple’s Time Machine, included as part of OS X, make it easy to store multiple versions of every file from your computer on an external ...

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, ...