Backup Compactflash

Question

Does any one know a good free software to make an image(ghost) of a compactflash?

we are developing a software for a computer that uses a compact flash as harddrive and we would like to create a image befor we start installing stuff on it..

Answer 1

Industrial automation equipment use CF cards all the time and we image them all the time. I use B&R's Runtime Utility Center to image and restore bootable CF cards (works 100% of the time). It is installed with their PVI development setup: http://br-automation.com/en/downloads/#categories=software/automation-netpvi

Answer 2

If you're using unix, dd might be the solution. I think something like

dd if=/dev/YOURDEVICE of=/tmp/IMAGE_OF_YOURDEVICE bs=1024

Might do the trick...

Answer 3

There are free and/or open source windows programs that will capture an image of flash memory - they are usually used in cases of data recovery. Sarch for flash card recovery software and you'll many software packages that do what you need.

Here is a page of free software for imaging drives:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml

I've used Drive Image XML before (free for home/personal):
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

And WinDD (windows version of linux DD - free, open source):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/windd/

Both work well. WinDD isn't as GUI friendly, but does the job and should work with linux DD images as well.

-Adam

Answer 4

I think True Image will do the trick, it's not free but is very good: http://www.acronis.com/