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 ...

For years I've been deploying Macs by using Disk Utility to image the boot drive from a .dmg file. Aside from having to make a new image every time new hardware comes out it's a very convenient system ...

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 ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations often create a secondary disc backup to prevent permanent loss of data or to help deploy it across multiple computers more efficiently. While burning a CD image to a blank disc is ...

MindVision Software today released FileStorm 1.5 and FileStorm Pro 1.5, new versions of the software installer package for Mac OS X. The new version ads features ...

With a disk image, it's exactly as if you have saved them to a CD or DVD. Opening the disk image is like inserting a physical disk. Your Mac shows you all of the files on that and then when you've ...