Sam McCurry wisely created an image backup of his internal drive. Now he wants to know how that backup can help him should Windows fail to boot. An image backup copies the complete contents of your ...

If you're in the market for an external hard drive to use for backing up your Windows 7 computer, you might be asking how much space you need. Microsoft recommends a hard drive with at least 200 ...

I have a Linux-based QNAP NAS that I successfully used to back my system up using the Windows 7 backup tool. Now that I have Windows 8 installed, I've had tons of errors and the backup never finishes.

Reader Tom is dealing with this major hassle: When I switched from Windows XP to Windows 7, I was very careful to backup my entire computer to my laptop. After installing Windows 7, I found out that ...

I want to use the built-in backup tool to create a system image, and the space estimate it gives me seems to be just the total space used on the partition. But there's no need to save pagefile.sys and ...