Someone stole Bernard Nartey’s Windows 7 laptop. Now he needs to recover the data from his backup. Aren’t you glad you have a backup? Without it, you would lose everything—instead of just the hardware ...

The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

System Restore Points are states of Windows OS that can be used to fix the computer if anything goes wrong, right from missing system files to unstable unsigned drivers. That said, all Restore Points ...

The Windows operating system includes built-in tools that let you backup and make copies of your files and create a system image. It now also includes a System Image Backup Tool, with which you can ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Losing a years' worth of financial data can cause significant distress and make you immediately reach for the Restore option. However, using System Restore won't help you recover your data. System ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...

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 ...