Tag: hard disk

Disk storage space is always at a premium. No matter how much space one has, it always seems to shrink. In this article, the...

Clonezilla is back-up and restore software that is a powerful alternative to Symantec's famous, yet expensive, commercial software Norton Ghost. Do you often format your...

Over the next few columns, we will continue our discussion on data storage systems and look at how they are evolving to cater to...

Have you accidentally deleted an important file because you have the habit of using Shift+Del instead of only Del? Well, don't panic. I had...

Backups are a crucial part of our digital lives, yet they don't always get the love they deserve. Keeping backups is sometimes confusing, thanks...

This article explains some free and open source tools like GParted, g4u and partimage, which are used for partitioning, disk cloning, partition backup/restore, etc.

With so many Linux distributions around, each with its own flavour, it would be a waste not to sample them from time to time. Here is a simple multi-boot template for your PC for an arbitrary number of distributions controlled by two levels of boot menus.

Computers with more than one hard disk and more than one operating system (OS) can be set up to provide better performance than what OS installations generally default to. This technique, called cross swapping by the author, is described using a dual-boot scenario of Linux and Microsoft Windows.