Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

an external drive to recover with connotes a bootable drive, while a backup drive is just formatted partition(s). effectively, you need to build an OS disk with recovery tools, in order to have a ...

A lot of us use our USB thumb-drives (flash drives, data sticks, whatever you call them) as little repositories for our daily document work. We keep Word docs, text files, photos, and other daily data ...

I know some of the basic theory, I'm just wondering if anyone's actually had any experience with them? I have never seen such a product, but to be fair I haven't ever looked for one either. I see a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTLA) – When you don’t want to back up to ...

Storage Appliance Corp. – the company whose portable backup systems made the otherwise laborious task of backing up computer data manually a thing of the past announced another breakthrough with the ...

Congratulations on backing up your PC—but you aren’t as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, ...

This issue is caused by Windows not recognizing USB drives as a valid backup location because earlier, they weren’t large enough to store system images. One good way to bypass the USB drive limitation ...