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Convert VMDK to ISO
I have a disk image that is in VMDK format, and I would like to convert this to an ISO so that I could use this outside of a virtual environment. I know that, at first impression, these formats don't ...
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How can I migrate a Windows 7 system image into a VirtualBox VM?
I have a Windows 7 system image (as in Microsoft's built-in backup, not dd or Norton Ghost). Can I convert it into a VirtualBox image? I'm aware that you can do this with dd images.
Even if I'm able ...
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Does backup by full disk image even make sense wrt Windows activation?
Tools like Acronis promise to enable you to restore the PC to a running state in no time, because when your hardware is defect, you just replace it and restore the backup and everything's fine.
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how to restore the backup of windows installation disk image
I had low disk space problem in windows 7 installation. And there was no way to increase the volume size of my C: drive. So I first backup the disks unix cat command.
cat /dev/sdb1 > ...
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Image system drive of stubborn win xp machine
I want to make an image of the C: drive on a particular windows xp machine, which I own. Then I want to restore this image to an identical drive. But the manufacturer has implemented measures to ...
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Save a Windows system image on the same drive as the one you're imaging?
If I don't have any external drives, can I still create a full system image? Can I create a separate partition, and image only the original partition, to be stored on the second partition? Or does it ...
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Windows 7 Backup and Restore after partition format and other OS install
I have a laptop with Windows 7. I have used the built-in Backup and Restore feature to create a system image on an external hard drive and I have created a recovery disk.
The system image included ...
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Create a VM from DMG disk image created from Windows XP Boot Camp Partition
I had Windows XP installed on a Boot Camp partition, and wanted to replace it with Windows 7, so I used Disk Utility to create a .DMG image from the partition, reformatted and installed Windows 7 on ...
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Change password of encrypted disk image in OS X with Terminal
I would like a program that would exist on my flash drive that, when run, would
open an encrypted disk image with a stored password
then change the password to a random number
store it for using it ...
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Autorun file on USB drive in OS X
I would like to have my USB flash drive auto-run a file on it when plugged in.
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Boot from a disk image without restoring it?
I would like to know if it's possible in any way to boot my Macbook ('11) from a disk image (of a 10.6 system) present on an external drive without restoring the image to a disk or partition?
I ...
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Preboot/live CD disk image backup solution w/ block-level incremental and merge support
I know there have been many queries regarding backup, but this one is rather demanding. I should also mention that I've done a fair amount of googling, but was unable to find what I need.
I need a ...
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How do I mount a sparse disk image permanently?
On Mac OS X 10.6.7, when I mount a sparse disk image (either by double-clicking it or using hdid from the command line), the image:
Appears on my desktop
Needs to be re-mounted every time I log in
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Creating a disk image of dm-crypt/LUKS encrypted LVM partition (Linux)
Is there any disk imaging software out there that can intelligently take an image of an encrypted LVM partition, if I provide the passphrase?
I am referring to software that is similar to Clonezilla ...
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Differential Backup with Scheduling, Manual Naming, Browsing, Cleanup
I'm looking for a local disk image / disaster recovery backup solution for Windows 7 that can do the following...
Schedule a full disk image once every 3 months
Schedule a weekly differential image ...
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Does Windows 7 have built-in support for creating & mounting disk images?
Does Windows 7 have any built-in tools (GUI/command-line) for creating and mounting disk images (similar to Disk Utility/hdiutil on Mac OS X)? I did a quick search in the Windows Help for "disk ...
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How to Copy .VHD File to Physical Hard Disk Using DD Command
I have read other question/answers on this site that say this is possible, but I'm wondering how it is done. I have tried the following command, which completes successfully, but the NTFS isn't valid ...
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Compressed disk image on Linux
I just got my new computer with a much bigger harddisk. I think I copied all important files over but just to be sure, I'd like to keep a disk image of my old disk. To save space, I'd like to compress ...
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Quickly clone a microSD card
is there an easy and quick way to clone all data from one microSD card to another? I want to periodically backup contents of my phone card to a backup one, and as I have a lot of small files on the ...
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Memory card image [closed]
nowdays we are capable of making a cd disk images and can mount on virtual drive....but can we do this all function with our memory card....????? i mean in phone we can make a image of a memory card ...
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What's the best way to be able to reimage windows computers?
I've got a low-end machine for testing our software. It needs to be tested under various versions of Windows, so I was planning installing each one on its own partition.
Then I realized that after ...
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Copy disc image to USB device under Windows
I'm looking for a tool which can "burn" image files created with dd under Linux on Windows. I send these images to clients so it should be as simple as possible to use. Having something that can be ...
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Mounting a multi-partition disk image in Linux
I downloaded an raw SD card image that has two partitions.
It caused some file system errors when I tried to dd it directly into an SD card. I am not sure if the card is defective or the image.
Is ...
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Restore/Imaging On Different Physical Machines
I've used a couple of disk-imaging tools in the past; but they always required the hardware on the machine be identical to the one that created the image. Is this still the case?
I have a ...
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how do you put a virtual disk into a virtual computer?
trying to install biolinux6 (an ubuntu64 derivative) on a Virtual Box virtial machine... how do i start? i did it once about 3 months ago but i've forgotten.
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Windows Software to Mount Volume/Partition Image File
Last night I had a BSOD a couple of minutes after moving a file. After a reboot, I found that the file was gone (it was deleted from the source partition and not present on the destination).
I took ...
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Command Line tool to create ISO images
I was tasked with helping automate the build process where I work and was specifically given the task of packaging the installer/release files into an ISO to be burnt and distributed to customers. ...
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In linux, how do I create/restore an image snapshot of my entire drive?
I'm too spoiled by Windows utilities that take a digital snapshot of your entire drive, which you can then restore from in the event of a drive crash. (e.g. like Time Machine for Mac OS X).
Is there ...
