The fact that a USB drive can be written to is both a benefit and a drawback — on one hand, it isn’t as resistant to intrusion as a read-only CD, but on the other hand, you can save configuration ...

Windows: If you find yourself needing to create multiple duplicate flash drives, ImageUSB makes the process painless with concurrent drive imaging. Batch the process and image as many drives as you ...

Windows: If you're tired of managing five or six different live CDs for testing and troubleshooting, free program XBoot will help you merge them all onto one DVD or thumb drive with simple ...

Virtual CDs and DVDs, also called disc images, are single files containing data stored within a CD or DVD file system. You can use them for archiving purposes in your business. You can also burn ...

Whereas with USB sticks, i've heard dd does not need to e.g. i've heard a few people speak of using dd of a live OS image, to another USB stick and it not mattering if the USB stick you're writing to ...

Want to boot Ubuntu, Fedora, Clonezilla, or another operating system from a USB flash drive? There are a number of tools designed to help you burn a disc image to a flash drive, but a new utility ...

Windows install floppies and discs have gone the way of the dodo, but it still pays to keep a copy of the OS on a USB drive. Here's how to make your own.

R-Drive Image offers a ton of great backup features, including disaster recovery and newly expanded support for all the most popular online storage services. But its former bulletproof nature has ...

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 ...