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 ...

Robert Spann asked how best to copy everything on his internal drive. Should he image the drive, or clone it? Cloning copies the complete contents of one drive—the files, the partition tables and the ...

Felix Luke needs to back up his entire hard drive. He asked me to explain the differences between cloning and imaging. Both cloning and imaging create an exact record of your drive or partition. I’m ...

I recently switched my OS drive to a new, larger SSD so that I would stop running out of space every time a Windows 11 update came around. I had to weigh up the benefits of doing a fresh install or ...

You can clone a hard drive to make a duplicate that you can use to replace a failed drive or get a new computer up and running quickly. Windows can't clone a hard drive automatically, but there are ...