An ISO disc image is a special file that stores the contents of an entire CD or DVD on your computer hard drive. Keeping an ISO backup of expensive software such as Microsoft Office on your computer ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

You probably know that, using Disk Utility, you can create a disk image from any folder in OS X. Just as with applications you download, items on a disk image won’t ...

One useful OS X feature is the ability to create disk images. A disk image is a single file that, when double-clicked, appears like a typical hard drive to the operating system. (Most software you ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...