While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

The native Windows backup is basically useless for a "full system" backup. And it's not a heck of a lot better at simple file/folder-level backups. I suggest you keep using Macrium and just give up on ...

There are many situations that can render your Windows system backup image invalid; for example, if you have stored data on a scratched hard drive, the backup image might be damaged. Consequently, ...

There has been ongoing debate on Microsoft's TechNet site about an issue with Windows 7 RTM x64 and incremental backups. It seems as though Windows 7 x64 is not performing incremental backups as it ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...

Windows Vista introduced some new backup tools, but they failed in one important area: you couldn't specify exactly which folders should be backed up. Thankfully, the Backup and Restore Center in ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...

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NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...