A disk image is a complete duplicate of a disk (or other storage media), in the form of a file.
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Can I create a cloned system image and deploy it on a new machine?
I am attempting to create a backup image of a system deployed on a machine now. Then I would like to deploy this image on a different computer. Despite driver incompatibilities is this ...
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Altering a Clonezilla Image
I've got a clonezilla image that I need to change out two license keys in. Is it possible to boot from the image and run off it to make changes? It's an image of Windows 7.
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What kind of image goes on the Recovery partition
I have installed Win 7 Pro on my OS partition and created a windows image file (.wim) after sysprepping my OS with /generalize and a custom unattend.xml file that works well for what I need.
I have ...
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How can I make a user template for OSX which automatically makes user folders on a separate partition?
I have setup a default user template on a computer which I am building an Image for our fleet of Macbook Retinas.
We are using 10.8 and I have created the default user and moved it to the ...
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How to mount sparseimage permanently at specific mount point?
I have a read/write image that needs to be mounted at a specific location, how can I have it mounted on bootup at that location? Not necessarily for my user but maybe the whole system? My mount point ...
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A bootable self-installable image of a fresh Windows installation with Norton Ghost?
I have just set up my aunt's computer with Windows, drivers and the software she needs. At some point in the future, when the computer has gotten unbearable clogged up with bloatware and stuff, I will ...
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Recover Dell Factory Restory Image on Secret Drive
I have an Studio 17, which has a secret 15 gigabyte partition with the original Windows 7 recovery image. Is there any way I can convert this into a recovery DVD so that I can delete the partition.
I ...
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Making it easy for someone to restore a drive image
I'm giving an old laptop of mine to a friend and I'd like to give them an easy way to restore a clean drive image from a USB flash drive. The laptop can boot from USB, I'm just looking for something ...
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Updating Windows registry on a disk image
I have a hard disk image (.vmdk) taken from an old computer. The image contains a Windows 2000 installation.
Now I would like to update the registry on the image to make it bootable. (I'm suffering ...
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Clonezilla Disk too Small when it isn't
I took a 320 gig hard drive, shrunk the partition for Windows to 40 gigabytes, and cloned the partition. I'm trying to restore onto a 250 gig drive. I keep getting either a failed partition table, or ...
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NTFS4DOS without logo?
I want to create NTFS bootable image. I use NTFS4DOS for read/write access to NTFS partitions. I use it because it loads fast, in just a few seconds. Every time I load from it, the NTFS4DOS logo ...
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Very slow opening of an encrypted sparse bundle image in the Finder over the network
I have a 500GB spares bundle encrypted disk image that I store on a network drive, that contains around 200 video files (various formats: mov, mp4, mts) in its root level, plus a few subfolders.
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Where do I download Windows 7 home premium SP1 OEM version disk image legally? [duplicate]
Is there any legitimate place where I can download Windows 7 home premium SP1 OEM version?
I want to re-install Windows, but I've lost my Windows install disk.
I'm considering downloading the disk ...
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Use losetup and dd to make filesystems images ready to be deployed
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Using dd, one can easily backup the MBR and partition table of a disk. It's as easy as: dd if=/dev/disk2 of=~/Desktop/disk2_mbr bs=512 count=1
One can also backup whole partitions: dd ...
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Mount a Linux Disk Image with two file systems?
I'm working with the new Kali Linux ARM images, and after hours of not figuring anything out in terms of mounting, I got it to mount via my Mac and fuse. Here's the curious thing, it's a single image ...
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Can I convert a fat32 disk image to NTFS, and how?
I have just imaged a FAT32 disk drive on a NTFS disk drive.
I'm aware I could have imaged on a FAT32 HDD and convert it later, but I figured it out too late and I'm trying to save processing time (I ...
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Migrating Windows 7 from a drive whose current active/bootable partition is a proprietary 'recovery' partition
I have a Toshiba laptop with a failing HD which I plan to swap for an SSD.
The current setup sees the laptop booting silently through a 'recovery' partition which I'm assuming is proprietary to ...
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Reinitialize USB pendrive that was used to boot linux
I have a pendrive that was used to boot a linux image (created using dd if=... of=/dev/sd4 bs =1m on a mac)
Now I would like to use it again as regular pendrive. Unfortunately I just have a windows ...
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dd backup produces bigger image file
I created a disk image with dd. The hard disk capacity is 2 GB. However, the image produced a 3.8 GB file.
I used:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 > /mnt/sd/disk0.img
(where mmcblk0 is a microSD card, with 3 ...
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Creating a Windows 7 image with Ghost to install from CD?
I have about 50 identical laptops that need to all be running Windows 7 with some extra programs and drivers.
My boss is telling me to prepare one laptop, then use Ghost to create a bootable CD from ...
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Restore a system image
I created a system image in a network location on Windows 7.
How can I restore this system image in case of a failure?
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Sony Vaio Windows 7 home
I have a Sony Vaio.
I wanted to put Linux Mint 14 on it.
I used disk management to resize my drive.
On the disk manager it should the different partitions available.
I installed Linux in the ...
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Is it possible to find out the version/edition of windows installation on disk?
Is it possible to find out what version of windows 7 I have installed (for example home premium 64-bit) by looking at the files on the disk.
The disk I have is a MBR installed windows copied to a GPT ...
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Sparse image filesystem suitable for live linux filesystem
I want to boot linux (Mint 14) from an USB drive, but mount essential parts of the
filesystem from the hard drive (/home, /usr, /opt). Is there a filesystem type that can be used within a sparse image ...
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Mount floppy disk image (*.img) as virtual floppy drive
Title says it all. I am looking for some software that will allow me to mount a floppy disk image (*.img) as a virtual floppy drive...similar I suppose to mounting an ISO image to a virtual optical ...
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How to generate an MBR binary?
I am using the Bochs Emulator running on an Android host system. My Android filesystem is mounted as a Bochs "vvfat" partition. Now, the way in which Bochs generates the CHS values for this partition ...
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Imagex.exe performance
I'm using Microsoft's imagex.exe for backup and restore in 2 configurations: A mirror raid of 2 500GB hard drives, and a mirror raid of 2 1TB hard drives. The second configuration is 30% slower even ...
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dd /dev/sda to img on drive
If I run:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=~/image.img bs=1M
Will the image.img (which is located on /dev/sda1) be continuously copied onto itself? As it gets bigger from data, will that additional data be ...
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Backup cd as image or copy files
I have some old music CDs and I want to backup them before they stop working completely.
I know how to backup them technically but I am not sure whether to backup them as images or copy the music ...
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Can I copy an image of a partition into a new partition of different size?
The primary master of my NAS server is about to die (according to the S.M.A.R.T message I receive on boot). I have dutifully ordered a new drive and will replace the failing one as soon as I receive ...
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Move Windows 7 backup shadow storage
I have a rather idiotic backup setup of backing system partition to another partition on the same drive.
Now the drive space exhausted there and I want to move my backup location to another box and ...
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How to mount a RAID from the individual disk images on a Mac?
Having the raw images from the individual disks of a RAID array, how to mount its partitions on a Mac?
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Clone partition table of a dying hard disk
I have a hard disk here that looks like it is dying sooner or later. SMART checks already give me a lot of errors. The system is a dual boot with Windows and Linux and (not quite sure about that ...
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How can I create a full disk image in Windows 7?
I've just bought a new laptop, it came with Windows 7 installed, and I would like to install linux.
I know I can have both, but just in case I want to first backup everything. I want to copy an image ...
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Is it possible to change the 'hardware version' in VMWare player?
I am using the latest version of VMWare Player, and I need to create an image for a server. Is it possible to downgrade the hardware version to version 7 (equivalent to VMWare Player 3.xx), rather ...
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Reduce size of disk image on Mac OS
I have several disk images in IMG format, which contain whole file system images presumably in ext2. I want to remove free sectors and therefore wasted space in the images.
Is there any way in OS X/ ...
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(How) can I compile an disk image from a source file? (specifically Darwin)
Apple doesn't release Darwin disk images any more, just the source files. I'm sure it's not a simple as /compile darwin.src but there must we way.
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Read/write cross-platform disk image
I have a read-writable .sparseimage on a Mac; I'd like to start using the contents on a Linux machine as well. Is there a cross-platform read-write disk image container I can use? (The contained ...
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Getting Windows 8 System Image Recovery to recognize my backup
I have a bad feeling about Windows 8 backup already. I sure hope I'm just being plain dumb and somebody can enlighten me.
Short story: Windows 8 System Image Recovery does not find my system image. I ...
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Retrieve folder from WindowsImageBackup without original PC
I've had to RMA a faulty laptop recently and backed up everything apart from 1 file that I forgot about.
The file will still exist when I get my laptop back as I took a full C: drive image using the ...
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Recover with disc image without a blank disc?
I used Windows 7's built in backup software to create a disk image on a portable hard drive, and now I want to restore the computer from that image. So far so good, but I don't have a blank disc on ...
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How can I mount dd image of a partition?
I created a dd image of a partition (containing an HFS+ FS) of one of my disks (and not the entire disk) a few days ago using the following command -
dd conv=sync,noerror bs=8k if=/dev/sdc2 ...
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Cloning a dieing drive
I have a drive that is failing. Lots of bad sectors and the OS crashed.
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Can I clone the drive and hope it boots up or is it a lost cause?
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And what is a good way to clone it? I know people use ...
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How to convert ISO to IMA?
How to convert ISO to IMA ?
I know that converting to many other types (nrg,img,bin,cue,mdf,mds,ccd,sub) is easy.
I load them in UltraISO and save them as that formats. But it hasn't IMA type.
Also ...
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How to Find Out Who Made an ISO Disk?
If a file is saved using Microsoft word or some other type of program, you can right click on the file to find the properties, which will indicate the computer that created the file.
Is there anyway ...
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Can you create a hard disk-image of the same size as the target drive with GNU ddrescue?
I'm planning on using GNU ddrescue to create a drive image of my failing 1 TB hard drive.
Can I store the image sufficiently on another 1 TB hard drive? I figure the answer would be no because the ...
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Automatically generating a prefixed hostname during Sysprep
What I'm trying to do is set Sysprep to automatically rename the computer prior to joining the domain. If I put * in the answer file it generates a random name, but I would like to be able to apply a ...
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Size mathematics in System Image Creation seem absurd? (0x80780119)
This question seems to keep coming up in Microsoft Answers. Unfortunately, it never seems to be solved... on Microsoft Answers. Hopefully someone here will have a better idea.
I'm trying to create a ...
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How to create a virtual machine from a .img disk image?
I downloaded adisk image used for a wargame hosted by stripe, but I cant figure out how to create a virtual machine form this image.
I'm using virtualbox, but I could use another tool if it would be ...
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How do I make an encrypted disk image on Debian?
I'm basically looking for an equivalent to OS X's encrypted sparsebundles. The solution should have support for file ACLs and should not force me to specify a size in the beginning (the image should ...
