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Use Rufus to create an image of a partition + restore this partition to disk on Windows
Can we use Rufus to save a local disk partition into an .img image file? Basically the Windows equivalent of:
dd if=/dev/sda4 of=output.img
Also can we use Rufus to write an image, not to a whole USB ...
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0xc0000225 error after cloning windows 7 from one disk to another using dd
We have two hard disks. One is 80GB, most likely damaged/corrupt/failing. The second is 320GB. In the 80GB disk, we have Windows 7 enterprise installed. Since we would like to keep our application ...
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Why does Rufus call a .vhd file a DD Image?
I've noticed that the latest version of Rufus comes with a potentially useful extra option: Create a disk image of the selected device. However, in the resulting dialogue I get this:
Rufus seems to ...
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dd a linux volume from windows
I'm booting Lubuntu from Windows 7 by installing Grub in the linux partition itself (and not the MBR), dumping the first 512 bytes of the linux partition on a linux.bin file and then booting linux.bin ...
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How to use `dd` in order to restore the windows 7 backed up raw files into a new hard drive?
This is the typical case where the windows 7 installation had created a SYSTEM partition of about 1.1GB in size and another partition for the rest of the available space in a hard disk drive.
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0M error writing file: 5 access is denied
I'm trying to write ISO on USB using dd command: dd if=evolution-64bit.iso od=\\.\f: bs=4M. I've launched cmd as Administrator, disabled my MSE anti-virus software, but it keeps telling me that Access ...
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Clonezilla stopped. Can "sgdisk -z /dev/sdx" destroy all the data on sda?
I need suggestions.
I wanted to backup sda2 on which Win7 is installed.
I deleted the Recovery Resion.
(Probably Testdisk can restore this partition because I haven't done any manipulation on that ...
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Will Steam not run if its partition is copied to another using dd?
If I have Steam installed on one windows partition and then I copy that windows partition into another partition using dd, will Steam not run in that new partition? If so is there a way to fix it?
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windows equivalent for dd
I need to read and write various flash card images. The way i always did this in linux was with dd, and that did the trick. What is a good windows equivalent?
Simply put, i need to be able to read an ...
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Clone hdd with bad sectors
I have a 250 gig hdd and a 240 gig ssd. I want to transfer the data from the 250 gig hdd to the 240 gig ssd. I have tried a variety of methods with no success: (keep in mind i can boot perfectly from ...
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dd cloned drive not recognised by Windows
I have a Lenovo Windows 7 laptop with an MBR hard drive I want to clone. I used a Linux (Kali, FYI) live USB stick, booted on the PC and used dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=100M conv=notrunc to clone ...
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Cloning harddrive I/O errors after about 30 seconds
I am trying to clone a harddrive with important data to another harddrive to make sure we can keep those files safe.
Now my old HD is a 500GB 3.5" and the new one is 1TB 3.5". My old HD is plugged ...
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How do I create an MBR on a USB stick using DD command line tool
Okay I'm trying to create a BOOTABLE Windows7 image on a USB key from a Mac running Lion. My image is .iso format. I tried:
sudo dd if=/Users/myusername/Win7.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
And this ...
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Cloning a Windows partition through unix
my boot disk has chameleon installed with a linux partition and a second, empty partition that I would like to use with Windows7.
Since you never know how much things will Win7 ruin when installing I ...
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Creating an image of my hard drive
I've been thinking of making an image of my laptop's hard drive for backup purposes.
What would be the best way of doing this? I know about dd but is there a more user-friendly way, perhaps a GUI ...
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