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There is absolutely no reason why you would still want to routinely run games, movies, or music from optical discs. Inserting, ejecting, and switching discs is a nuisance and subjects both the drive and the discs to wear and tear. Moreover, optical drives are annoyingly loud and probably use a fair bit of energy. Finally, you might not have an optical drive to begin with. So what should you do instead?
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Copy the entirety of one hard drive to another. It's called cloning, and it's an important process if you want to replace or upgrade the primary hard drive in your computer. Cloning isn't the same as backing up. When a drive is cloned you have a perfect copy of everything that was on it – the operating system, the software and all of the files included. When you clone a drive you recreate its entire environment, partitions and all.
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Fans of disc management software like Daemon Tools and UltraISO will be able to appreciate WinISO, a tool that combines the features of being able to create, extract, and edit ISO files while also giving you the ability to virtually mount and burn image files to a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray. We'll be giving away 25 copies of WinISO Standard 6 (retails for $29.95) this week, at a total value of nearly $750! Interested? Read through this article to get familiarzed with the features of this software and check out the bottom of this article for participation instructions.
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WinISO can perform every function you’d need a disc utility for, including creating, converting, editing, extracting, and burning disc images. It supports CD, DVD, and Blu-ray disc images in ISO and a variety of other formats. This week we’ll be giving away 25 copies of WinISO, worth a total of nearly $750. Read on for your chance to enter our giveaway (it’s free!) and win yourself a copy!
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Easily make a copy of your entire hard drive . Don't just back up your data: back up all of your software, your settings and everything else by cloning your entire hard drive. Redo Backup makes cloning your system easy, but also gives you access to file recovery and a variety of other tools. You can even browse the web while everything's happening.
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Clone your Linux hard drive in its entirety in a few easy steps. With a little command line magic, and the use of some software already installed on your computer, you can make a carbon copy of your entire hard drive. Or, if you prefer, use a simple live CD for the job.
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Buying a new desktop or laptop computer is always good geeky fun. Although computers have generally accelerated beyond the level needed for mere “adequate” use, the performance wars haven’t calmed down in the slightest. New PCs also often have cool features like touchscreens. The only problem with buying a new PC ““ one that has [...]
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How often do you find yourself upgrading your laptop or computer, or reinstalling the OS on your current machine? Getting everything back exactly the way you had it can always prove to be a huge hassle. With Paragon Virtualization Manager 2010, migration of a Windows system becomes a simple and streamlined task. This week, we [...]
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We use our computers for many things. We store our digital photo albums, videos, important personal files like tax information and so on. Much of this data is irreplaceable, yet all the time I’ve seen friends not backing up their files and I know many other computer users are the same way. If only there [...]
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Not backing up your files regularly? You really should. There’s nothing worse in the computer world than losing all of your hard work – like your documents and projects – or your collection of fun – like your music and movies. You can do a lot to protect these files of course, but sometimes hard [...]
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The other day I wrote about Back In Time which takes snapshots of the configured folders and keeps track of various versions over a period of time, before you need them to restore your system back in time. In which case, it simply requires you find the right version and then click on restore. I [...]
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I ran into this enigma a couple of days back. Here’s what happened: I needed to create a clone of a disc to be shared with friends and it had to be compatible with Windows (because it was a Windows-only disc anyway but that’s not the point). I knew for a fact that using Toast [...]
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Imaging hard drives is the process of taking a hard drive and copying it bit by bit to create an exact replica, in a way an “image” just like a photograph of a person is a snapshot of them at any moment in time. The cloning part is the process of taking that “image” of [...]
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