A disk image is a complete duplicate of a disk (or other storage media), in the form of a file.
Questions tagged [disk-image]
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Do I need an external hard drive to create a system image?
I have upgraded from Vista to Win 7 Home Premium 32. I want to create a system image for recovery purposes in the event of disaster. Tried it several times on discs and it didn't work. Would it work better with an external hard drive? I looked…
Gail Synsteby
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Make a browsable HDD copy
I need to clone a HDD to a network drive and then be able to extract files from the image (it should be faster than copying files from that HDD). It's highly preferrable if I could do it from a live cd, it should have drivers for an old PCMCIA…
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How do you restore a .aff disk image to another hard drive?
I've got a failed hard drive which I've managed to create a .aff image of. I would now like to restore this image to a working hard drive.
I can't seem to easily locate any software which makes this possible.
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What is the difference between a disk-image and a collection of files?
What is the difference between creating an image of a disk vs. copying all the files on the disk?
What is the difference between writing an image to a disk vs. formatting a disk and copying a collection of files?
Does the answer depend on the image…
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160 GB drive reporting at 60 GB
I have a 160 gigabyte western digital drive, after drive imaging it will only report 60 gigs as existing (the size of the drive I imaged onto it) the remaining space does not show up as un-allocated, or available, the drive itself has become…
Zac Cramer
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How to create USB flash ".bin" image file of arbitrary size in Windows without physical drive
I need to make a .bin file to mount on a virtual desktop, which would otherwise need a physical usb drive attached.
I've already done this successfully by making a .bin file from a 128 MB USB drive I was lucky enough to have lying around. But to…
K0ICHI
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Ethics and method of cloning a windows drive for legacy purposes
So i have a Toshiba laptop that was left to me by someone who passed away. I can't bring myself to delete her Windows partition in the hopes that one day I will get it unlocked and maybe understand what the f happened to her. It feels like 13…
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Get Floppy Disk Geometry information in Linux
I have a floppy disk image (x86 boot sector) and I want to find information about the disk geometry for it (specifically Cylinders/ Head/ Sector).
How can I find this information?
The file command shows the following output for the image:
file…
Neon Flash
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