Questions tagged [disk-image]
A disk image is a complete duplicate of a disk (or other storage media), in the form of a file.
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I'm running a Windows 10 desktop and would like to be able to create a bootable thumbdrive so that I can move files on or off of it
I began periodically imaging my system partition in the late 90's when Windows (98) was less reliable. With every system crash, I'd have to spend an entire afternoon reformatting the drive, re-...
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Is there that can I create a virtual disk image out of my old laptop hard drive?
I have an old 2TB laptop hard drive from my old HP 15-da0061cl notebook. The notebook suffered from internal screen damage as well as the case breaking down due to fall damage. Due to my warranty ...
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How can I access a block device file as a regular file with defined size in Linux?
I need to transfer all the data from an external hard drive through the internet, including its partition table, boot sector - everything -, but I don't have space anywhere to copy that entire hard ...
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Backing up my entire Windows OS and then booting from restored backup [duplicate]
Have just been coming up with a new backup strategy for my Windows systems, as previously i would use the Windows System Image tool very occasionally, however this is quite clunky, and i have heard it ...
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How to get system info from a Windows system partition without booting it?
I have some disk/disk-images of previous Windows installations from different machines (some of them from machines I don't own any longer).
I'm trying to find out which machine these used to be in.
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Reclaim WSL2 disk space after setting it to sparse
Following the advice on How do I get back unused disk space from Ubuntu on WSL2? I set my WSL disk image to sparse with wsl --manage <distro> --set-sparse true. But the ext4.vhd file is still ...
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How do I image the beginning portion of a drive with qemu-img convert? (Similar to using dd count=)
I have 500 GB (~475 GiB) SSD that I want to image with qcow2. I plan on following this example on moving the Windows installation to a Qemu/KVM VM. I shrunk the ~470 GiB bitlocker root partition to ...
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Having issues mounting raw disk image in OSX
I have received this disk image from a embedded linux device. I need to mount the image and check some files on it.
This is what I have tried so far:
> hdiutil attach -nomount ~/Downloads/dskimg....
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Steps to backup a linux disk using dd needed
So after much research, I just need a couple of things clarified I don't fully understand about dd just yet.
I want to do a full disk image backup of an Ubuntu 18.04 linux disk ( a 500GB SSD ) into a ...
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Is it safe to use a macrium disk image to transfer all my data between identical laptops?
I recently bought a new laptop and after using it for a while I have noticed a fault. I have made a warranty claim and will be receiving an identical model in a few days.
My original laptop obviously ...
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Is there something like a read-write ISO file, to package folders as mountable single files? [duplicate]
I often have projects that consist of many thousands of extremely small files. It's terribly inefficient to move these around or send them to people as individual files, and inconvenient to be ...
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Sparse Bundles grow in file size, but it's not supposed to shrink by deleting data. But my Sparse Bundles is able to auto resize, why is that?
I am on macOS Sonoma, but I've noticed this since macOS Ventura. I created a sparse bundle disk image in Disk Utility, with a capacity of 100TB, encrypted, and in APFS.
Recently I keep running out of ...
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Are my passkeys on my system disk or in the TPM?
Will a system disk-image type backup include my Passkeys created by Windows Hello on Windows 11 23H2?
I'm not yet clear whether they are saved on disk or in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
If I ...
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Make GPT partition tables accept variable volume size
I often copy SD-cards or other flash drives used as system disks for small computers (Raspberry Pi, NVidia Jetson, small x86 PCs) to image files for backup.
However, when restoring those backups, the ...
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Make disk images for a PC that runs a complicated set of interacting control programs such that if a drive crashes we can swap it for the image?
I have stated to work with a home-built scientific research system that includes many instruments from separate vendors and four PC to control it all. In some cases two or three different vendor-...
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