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What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
For the majority of users, capturing an image of a partition via DISM (XP ≤ 7: ImageX) is generally the best and most efficient ...
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What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
There isn't one any more since Windows Backup is being phased out
(probably because this was a bad product to start with).
Only ...
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How to read tmpfs as a block device in linux?
From what Ive read there is no underlying block device. tmpfs is dynamically resized through the kernel - from which I deduce it cant be treated as a block. Ypu wpld need to use ramdisk of you want a ...
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Motherboard blew a few capacitors. How should I migrate the system?
I have used the free Paragon Adaptive Restore boot CD to successfully move a Windows 7 hard disk to a different machine at least a dozen times, often even between AMD and Intel.
You install the hard ...
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Can I get Windows Backup and Restore to save more than one system image backup on a single drive?
Late answer, but you should be able to rename the folder WindowsImageBackup to something else without having to use another partition.
On a multi-boot system with Win 7 and Win 10, this is actually ...
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Can I get Windows Backup and Restore to save more than one system image backup on a single drive?
Create multiple partitions on the backup drive, and then you can create an image on each partition. Other data can also be saved on each partition without disturbing the Windows Image Backup. I do ...
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Detecting blank image files
%k should be used for the format, as it returns:
CALCULATED: number of unique colors
Usage:
identify -format "%k" image.tif
Source: https://imagemagick.org/script/escape.php
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How do you reduce the size of a windows 7 offline image after you removed the old 3rd party drivers via DISM?
The DISM included with the Windows ADK for Windows 7 lacks this feature, it is only available in Windows ADK for Windows 8.1 and later.
So for the DISM /Export-Image command in the accepted answer to ...
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Why do these configuration file exclusions work with DISM /Capture-Image but not the New-WindowsImage cmdlet?
This appears to be a bug in the DISM PowerShell module.
Through...ways I found that the Add-WindowsImage, New-WindowsCustomImage, and New-WindowsImage cmdlets implement the exclusion behavior by ...
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I Image Device All Day - And want to run multiple BIOS/UEFI environments for Training/Testing - What do wise ones?
Unfortunately, no.
Virtual machines don't use BIOS like you find on a physical machine. That wouldn't work, as they are designed to work on actual hardware.
Virtual machine software uses its own ...
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Create ext4 image skipping free space
You can use e2image -r which will create a sparse file of only the metadata and data blocks which are in use. This can then be compressed, but when you uncompress the compressed raw image, you may ...
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When using DISM to load drivers on an offline image, what driver version gets used if multiple versions are installed?
DISM used this way will pick and install the latest Windows driver. The other drivers for the device will be ignored
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DISM capture and apply WIN10 image failure. Need guidance
Compared to sector-based images, Windows images (.wim) have several advantages, including deduplication, creating multiple images in one file using image indexes, and built-in support for image ...
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Do I need the default windows drivers or just third party when creating WIM file on Windows 10?
All default Microsoft drivers should be part of the Windows image you were using to create the VHDX, (unless you explicitly removed them.)
So you only need to add third party drivers.
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How do you reduce the size of a windows 7 offline image after you removed the old 3rd party drivers via DISM?
Use DISM /Export-Image to create a new WIM and this reduces the size:
/Export-Image: Exports a copy of the specified image to another file. The source and destination files must use the same ...
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View/set laptop power settings on a VM (desktop)
Ended up doing it through powercfg. It gives you access to all options regardless of whether the option is valid for the current machine.
The specific command I used was
powercfg -Change -standby-...
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Detecting blank image files
You can do a noisy trim with ImageMagick, e.g.:
convert image-0001.png -virtual-pixel White -blur 0x15 -fuzz 15% -trim info:
The page isn't empty if convert prints something like this:
image-0001....
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