One way to speed up your computer is by swapping out your optical hard drive for a solid-state drive (an SSD). There’s a significant speed difference in this swap, because you’re moving from the ...

Upgrade your PC speed easily by cloning your hard drive to an SSD. Learn step-by-step how to move Windows, apps, and files to ...

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 ...

The time comes all too soon when you will want to upgrade your computer. Agony of agonies, you will face the prospect of reinstalling all your programs -- a day-long job -- along with your data before ...

Many businesses protect their data with the use of encryption that makes it virtually impossible to access hard drives without a security password or hardware key. While using an encrypted drive is ...

The most practical ways to move an operating system installation to a different hard drive are to either restore a system image or clone the old drive to the new drive. These methods will make a 1:1 ...

I have a 350MB Seagate Wren 4 that I need to clone. It is the boot drive from a Sony News Workstation. Sony's NEWS 0S is/was a variant for BSD 4.3. I have a spare Wren 4 I can write to. The drive also ...

Hard drives that have failed. Hard drives that will fail. Hard drives that were retired in the course of a computer upgrade before failure. In this TechBuilder Recipe, I&ll show you how to set up a ...

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, ...

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 ...

My first hard drive was just 40 MB. Back then, circa 1990, the only reason you'd upgrade a hard drive was to increase your storage space. But, today, with the recent introduction of new hard-drive ...