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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Is Using System Disk Images Still Feasible As a Form of Restoring a Computer?
Am I correct that using disk images is no longer a good way to restore computers to a blank state after someone's used it?
For one instance, TPMs store keys separately from the OS so the TPM state ...
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Clone a bootable M2-SSD (Win10) to a new M2-SDD-Volume containing (Win11)
I have an HP laptop (1) with Windows 11 22H2 installed and another HP laptop (2) with Windows 10.
Would it be possible to clone/image the windows 10 M2-ssd to be another bootable volume on the Windows ...
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Can't restore Windows 10 home image into a new HP laptop
I am using clonezilla for some months now to restore Windows 10 Home images to our production laptops (HP 15-bs190nd).
Recently we bought some new laptops (HP 250 G8) and I am trying to restore the ...
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Calculating MFT for NTFS based Dynamic vhd
I am trying to calculate MFT offset from master boot section of NTFS filesystem of Dynamic VHD. The Little Endian cluster location of this Dynamic VHD MFT is highlighted:
which is then further ...
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taking an image of two partitions without unallocated space
I have a 32GB SD card with 1GB FAT32 on sdc1, 10GB EXT4 on sdc2 and 21GB unallocated space. I want to get a single disk image file that would contain sdc1 and sdc2. So the image would be of an 11GB ...
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Can I mount an empty qcow2 image?
I am trying to mount my image.qcow2 to nbd device on my linux machine using the following command:
guestmount -a test.qcow2 -i --ro /mnt/test_qcow/
but I get the following error:
guestmount: no ...
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How can I get the Product Key with Autopsy or FTK viewer?
I have a disk image divided in 4 files, image.E01, image.E02, image.E03 and image.E04. I created a case in autopsy and I'm trying to recover the Product ID and the Product Key.
The product ID I ...
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Make a System Image of an Old Computer as a portable ISO file
I have computers with Windows XP, Vista, and 7 installed. I have some ideas that I would like to use these computers for but I would need to backup everything on them first. I'm interested to know if ...
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Migrate from older Dell XPS to new One?
My old work place let me keep my current Dell XPS 15 9510 (win 11), this laptop is perfectly set-up for all of my work and software dev needs. My new work place have issued me with a new Dell XPS 15 ...
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Should drives be unmounted before cloning with Rufus?
In a Unix-based environment, when cloning a disk to an image file with dd, the disk should be unmounted to prevent errors due to the filesystem changing during the cloning process. When using Rufus on ...
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Backing Up Local Drive Image to Google Drive Without Cache Files
I'm looking to store a backup image of my local disk onto Google Drive for Desktop (GDD) using Windows 10 without the files being first cached on the local drive. GDD has an assigned drive letter.
I ...
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prepairing an raw disk image to be readable/mountable crossplatform
Does anyone know of an easy way to prepare a raw disk image to be accessible across platforms?
Sometimes I do data transfers for people and there are times when I just want to supply an image of the ...
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Recover bootable Win 7 recovery drive from an image
I have a laptop that came with a Windows 7/OEM license, for which I still have the product key. I have replaced this OS with another (Linux), and I'm trying to re-install the former. Here's the ...
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Recover from Windows Update that killed boot up [closed]
I recently had a near death experience where my system wouldn't boot after a Windows Update. I was finally able to fix it but it made me realize next time I might not be so lucky. So questions:
There ...
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Clonezilla error creating image from encrypted SSD: LUKS header file not found
I'm trying to create a full-disk image with Clonezilla alternative stable - 20221103-kinetic (Ubuntu-based) of my Dell XPS 15 7590. The notebook has only Ubuntu 22.04, standard partitioning.
The disk ...
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How can I convert a BIN and a CUE file to an ISO image on Linux?
I downloaded two disk images files on the Internet Archive that contain operating systems installation files.
I have a .BIN and a .CUE, and I want to convert them to a single ISO.
I tried using bchunk ...
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Macrium not showing an external drive when I look to restore an image
Macrium not showing an external drive when I look to restore an image
I have a laptop with one internal drive, and i've connected two drives connected externally, to USB. One external drive, a Toshiba,...
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Accessing physical disk from VirtualBox: Access Denied
I am trying to run a VirtualBox machine from a physical disk.
I read that I have to run
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\...
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Which partitions do I need to convert Windows 10 installation into VM?
What I would like advice with: I have A PC that had previously dual booted Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10. I have instead decided to use my Linux install as my main system and run Windows virtually from ...
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Add Partition Table to existing vhdx partition image
I have images of single paritions (not full disks) in vhdx format. I want to create VMs with Hyper-V with them. Since the images are only partitions the machines do not start.
How can I add the disk ...
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Hacking a Windows 11 Installation Setup
During Windows 11 installation:
Obviously install.wim's only image inside is extracted in this "Copying Windows files" stage. Now, this install.wim, I wish to replace with my own WIM file ...
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What does PowerISO mean by "unpacking" my image (*.img)?
I captured a bootable USB flash drive into an image (*.img) through PowerISO. When I open it in PowerISO, it indicates that it is in a sort of partitioning:
Then when I click on "Burn", ...
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how to create customized windows server 2019 for both vm and hardawre server
i want to create a customized windows server 2019 image with specific app and deployed to virtual server or to pysical server (8 model of dell server ) can this be done with MDT ? is there an easy ...
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Cloning/Imaging A Mounted VeraCrypt Volume (follow-up)
Following up on the question asked in: Cloning/Imaging A Mounted TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Volume
I'm wanting to achieve the same: backup VC mounted containers as partitions. File copy backup, as suggested ...
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Can I deploy a VHDX image on a physical machine?
It's been sysprep'd. I want to deploy it on physical machines. I haven't been able to do it so far.
What I tried to do is simply copy the VHDX (I was using Hyper-V VM) (after shutting down the VM ...
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Using a Squashfs to DD onto a partition to repair the OS
I have a very strict system with the bare minimum applications on for security reasons since I work with medical data.
Sometimes the laptops we use messup for one reason or another, won't boot, can't ...
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Process to Create Bootable IMG Backup of Windows Partition Via LiveUSB
Is it possible to create a bootable img of my Windows10 partition via the gnome-disk utility?
Or rather, what is the best / recommended way for creating a bootable image of Windows partition via an ...
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VBox .vdi resize succeeded. Still not able to store more data on the .vdi
I'm using Virtual Box Version 6.1.34 on Linux Mint 20. I ran out of space on one of my virtual machines (Guest OS: Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on dynamic .vdi image). Was 10G, resized to 100G.
I attempted the ...
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How to create a dualboot disk image to install on multiple laptops?
I'd like to setup multiple laptops in the same way: dualboot Windows and Linux. I understand the easiest would be to create a disk image with both operating systems and then write this image to all ...
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Editing Game Audio Disk
I have a very old game from 90s. the disk contains the setup files only. But When I right-click on it, It seems it is a multimedia disk which contains in-game musics and I can play them track by track ...
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Problems activating Windows 10 Pro on new digital licensed computers when using an imaged HDD containing same OS version
I'm having trouble with activating Windows 10 Pro on computers that come with an OEM digital license for Windows 10 Pro. Here's some background..
I have a company that performs video surveillance ...
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Use a .img image as a read-only disk or Optical drive in VirtualBox
I have read How to create a virtual machine from a .img disk image? but here the goal is slightly different.
With a VirtualBox machine, I know how to:
add a .vdi disk
mount a .iso as a (read-only) ...
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backup strategy for pc
im thinking about a backup strategy for the follow scenario:
W11 machine with 2 Disks:
onboard SSD 256 + some cheap HDD
the goal is to create in AUTOMATIC mode, a full booteable disk every sunday from ...
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Mount APFS on Ubuntu Error while using apfs-fure
I have an apfs disk with some information that I need to access on my desktop. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I have looked to this article to find all the steps I need to be able to do this (https://...
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Setup Windows and apps on a VM then move to PC
Is it viable to do it? I'm considering installing and configuring Win10 and all apps I use inside a VM, then create an image of the partition and restore it on my PC.
I'm considering it because my ...
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Insufficient space to create shadow copy
The disk I’m trying to make the backup on has more than enough space (in theory) for a full image of my C drive, but every time I do it gets returned with "not enough space to create shadow copy&...
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How to backup and work with a WSL instance from Linux?
I have a multiboot system where sometimes I boot into Linux and sometimes I boot into Windows and use WSL2.
I just discovered that Linux has tools which can be used on vhdx files, and that from Linux ...
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Can I restore a Macrium image made from one machine SSD to another to clone windows and installed applications?
I have a Dell 8700 with Windows 10 activated and various applications all on a 256GB SSD. I have purchased a used Dell 9020 with a new 256GB SSD with Windows 10 activated, and I want to use Macrium ...
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Can clonezilla image a recovery partition?
I am trying to image an entire disk but the last partition (the windows recovery partition) failed. How can I tell if this is a disk error or some sort of copy protection mechanism?
I'm using an asus ...
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Is it possible to restore/read any data after a system imaging?
After you image a system, is there any single remaining 1 or 0 in the entire drive pertaining from the original system? Or is it entirely a new system. What if the new system image is 50GB smaller ...
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How to deploy Windows Image to different Computers(different hardware)
I install and reinstall windows all day. I clone to expediate the process, if the hardware allows it, but would really save a lot of time if I could just restore a windows image with all the apps ...
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How to create USB flash ".bin" image file of arbitrary size in Windows without physical drive
I need to make a .bin file to mount on a virtual desktop, which would otherwise need a physical usb drive attached.
I've already done this successfully by making a .bin file from a 128 MB USB drive I ...
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Is it possible to make .iso from Linux Disk?
I want to make a .iso file from my modified Feren OS so that I can share this with my Friend and put it on my Laptop. Is there a way to do it?
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Clonezilla image not found
So I cloned a flash drive to image with clonezilla using my /dev/sdc2 mounted as /home/partimag
After the process, I shutdown my PC to do something else only to return unable to find the image I ...
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Create custom Windows10 image [closed]
I would like to create an image that's a copy of my w10 installation, so I can later create a VM with it. I would like to have my VM startup with the same files and configuration in the same folders. ...
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How do I programmatically read files from an ISO or disk image in powershell?
I would like to read files from an ISO disk image as part of a powershell script. Because this is an automated process and the disk will only be open temporarily, I would like to avoid allocating ...
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Can Windows backup an entire drive?
I want to make a full backup of the entire drive in Windows, without third party tools. I looked at the 'Backup Image' feature, but it requires me to select the partitions, and it does not list my ...
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How to mount disc images privately in OS X
If I understand it correctly, the devices mounted in Mac OS under /Volumes are available to all users of the system.
This includes not only the internal hard drive, but also all external media, AFP ...
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Create disk image of directory?
Using Debian 10
I have a directory of lots of small files that I rarely (but do) access. I'd like to convert this to a disk image file that I can mount, access, then unmount anytime I need. Every now ...
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Windows dd Command: Access is Denied Error
I need to create a .dd image of one of my drive in windows, For this I chose dd utility. However it is generating aforementioned error while creating image. I have opened command line as Administrator....
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