Questions tagged [imaging]
describes the process of creating an exact copy of a data storage media.
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WD External Drive Stopped Working - Are there any Non-Destructive Diagnostic Options? What's the Best Course Of Action?
I'm having problems with my Western Digital My Passport 4TB External Drive.
This model, specifically: WDBYFT004BBK-0A
I was in the process of cross-backing-up data between my live setup (laptop), my ...
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How to get rid of welcome screens for the guest user in Windows 11 for Education?
Simple thing really: I successfully created a Windows 11 Education setup with "Shared PC" settings, i.e. there's a guest user who can logon anonymously and whose changes will be reverted ...
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Dump All Images Possible On a Laptop Motherboard
In relation to another question I wanted to ask, supposing I pulled the drives from a laptop, and the GPU/CPU/TPM/RAM are soldered on the mother board (along with lots of other random chips). What ...
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Backing up multiple computers with Macrium Reflect - nested image files
I'm planning to back up 12 old computers and HDDs from my parent's collection. These are yet to fail despite their age. My method involves imaging the drives and partitions with default compression ...
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I Image Device All Day - And want to run multiple BIOS/UEFI environments for Training/Testing - What do wise ones?
I'm an L2 Support Tech, and as part of my daily activities, I provide assistance walking stores through reimaging their POS/Hardware systems. We mainly support six or so set units. These devices are ...
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Hard disk image files don't upload to OneDrive
I would like to store my hard drive images in the cloud, so that they are not at risk if the local PC breaks down.
However, OneDrive (using the desktop client for Windows) does not upload the images. ...
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How to read tmpfs as a block device in linux?
A typical linux machine mounts a tmpfs to store temporary files:
$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 953M 702M 203M 78% /
tmpfs 1.5G ...
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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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Create ext4 image skipping free space
To backup an ext4 partition the easy way is just to use cat or dd:
cat /dev/sdXn > backup.img
dd if=/dev/sdXn of=backup.img
This of course is just a low level copy, so also the unused disk space ...
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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?
Is the native method generally the best method for most users?
How does the native method differ from conventional cloning?
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Motherboard blew a few capacitors. How should I migrate the system?
So, the motherboard of a customer’s system blew a few capacitors and replacing the motherboard with one of the same model is not an option as it is out of production now. The system won’t stay turned ...
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When using DISM to load drivers on an offline image, what driver version gets used if multiple versions are installed?
Does windows intelligently pick, is it the latest version, is it the last one (by order of installation) or does something else happen?
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Imaging one laptop to another
I have a windows 10 laptop which I have managed to set-up as I like it.
I would like to image this laptop so I can deploy/install it on another one, which is exactly same model, for use as a back-up/...
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Why do these configuration file exclusions work with DISM /Capture-Image but not the New-WindowsImage cmdlet?
I am trying to create a configuration file to define exclusions for an image capture as described in DISM Configuration List and WimScript.ini Files. The exclusion rules seem to be ignored when I ...
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Windows 8.1 laptop with eMMC storage restore image to different disk
I have an ASUS notebook with Windows 8.1 with Bing installed on a 32GB eMMC storage device. Long story short, it is too small to be usable in our scenario.
We have added a 120GB SSD to the device, ...
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