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I have an SD card that contains 2 volumes (H and I). I have found programs where I can turn Drive H and I into an ISO or IMG seperately. But I want a program that will take the entire card and turn it into an IMG or ISO file with all the volume info. I have done this with hard drives using the program reflect, but reflect doesn't see the SD card. IMGBURN will allow me to do either H or I independantly...

Does anyone know what my options are? I've Tried easeus disk copy, easeus backup, winimage, win32diskimager, RMPprep, and USB image tool...

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You can use ImageUSB... this software clones in a single .bin image all the content of your sd card, even if you have multiple partitions.

ImageUSB screenshot

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  • Just what I was looking for, thanks!
    – jason.kaisersmith
    Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 15:25
  • Might be okay for USB flash drives but I'm not sure about SD Cards. Doesn't see the SD Card slot on my Lenovo laptop, anyway.
    – mwardm
    Commented Aug 19, 2023 at 16:01
  • This does not work for SD card readers which are internally connected via PCIe. Don't waste your time if you're on a fairly modern laptop.
    – SimonC
    Commented Mar 11 at 9:19
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To create image of the whole card (not just one Windows-visible partition), you can use dd for Windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd).

Run CMD as Administrator:

dd --list

Check which device is your SD card. In my case it was: \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0. Partition0 refers to the whole disk, Partition1 to the first partition, etc.

Copy whole SD card to an image file:

dd if=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 of=my.img bs=1M --progress
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    This worked perfectly for me -- I was able to img a RaspberryPi card w/ 2 parts from within Windows. dd for Windows is available here: chrysocome.net/download Version 0.6Beta3 appears to be the latest version still.
    – itnAAnti
    Commented Dec 3, 2018 at 15:44
  • there's now ddrelease64.exe available
    – Alexandr Zarubkin
    Commented Mar 27, 2023 at 12:11
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Since you are in windows you can simply use the same program you mentioned 'win32diskimager'. Press the folder icon and select the location and file name you want to create. (sdcard.img) and write. Tool will clone the entire SD card as it is. If you can use Linux you can easily do that using dd command like this 

dd if=/dev/sdc/ of=/home/sdcard.img

Replace the sdc and sdcard.img with appropriate names

If you worrying finding machine with Linux you can simply enable Windows subsystems for Linux (WSL) which gives you full featured Linux terminal on your windows

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    I tried that, but under device I can pick Drive H or drive I. But not the entire card. Both Drives H and I are on that one card, so I want both to be in the image as is. Basically its a raspberry PI, and I want to clone it, so if the card dies, I just apply the img to a new. H is the boot partition, I is the file structure.
    – jjohnston
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 15:41
  • Macrium Reflect (free) allows selecting whole drives including the boot sector or only some of its partitions (what you call "drive H" and "drive I" are actually partitions in the same drive).
    – user931000
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 16:32
  • yep, reflect doesn't work with flash media. I did try AEOMI and it seemed to do it. it created it as a .adi file. I'll have to test.
    – jjohnston
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 17:33
  • Windows Subsystem doesn't allow to get info about disks (lsblk failed, some disks are not mounted under /mnt).
    – stachu
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 20:38

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