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December 29, 2012 12:53 am GMT

5 Ways to Backup Your Hard Drive


That sleek new laptop or PC you received this Christmas, with all those programs and apps, needs more protection from crashes than just occasionally clicking "save."

To ensure your programs and apps are salvageable in the event of a crash, you might want to consider taking an image of your hard drive or cloning it. Instead of having to reinstall your operating system and your applications if your computer crashes (which takes hours), just recover your hard drive from an external source. This way, you only lose what you have installed after you saved your hard drive.

The difference between imaging and cloning is that cloning is usually for when you want to replace your hard drive with…
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