Questions tagged [hard-drive-image]

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Is there a way to mount an EXT4 volume image in Windows 7?

Made with ddrescue. I'm guessing not.
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Create a Windows Image for Deployment

In my company we have 8 laptops that we use to deploy on the field. These machines get assigned to a user for a certain time and run Windows Vista. All the machines are the same model. After the machine is returned, it is company policy to…
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How to create virtual block devices from file?

Let's have unknown disk drive uncompressed raw image (created for example by dd if=/dev/sda of=image) in single file. If we knew the disk layout, we could mount particular partitions from the file as the loop devices via skipping some…
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How to make an byte by byte drive-image of a hard-drive without / unrecognized filesystem?

After a windows crash a friends hard-drive starts saying "no operating system found", he had hard-drive issues for a while now, and I instructed him to buy a new one. Now I want to recover his data. But before using my usual recovery tools I would…
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Restoring Windows 7 from a system image

I am asking now so when the time comes, I can restore from the image on my NAS drive drive. I have Windows 7 Home Premium, and used the anytime upgrade to upgrade to Windows Professional, for the network backup features. I created a system image on…
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Restore drive image with PC reboot

I need a way to restore a drive image (C:) automatically.. My client earlier had some Norton Ghost 2003 floppy disk with some batch program to initiate a Drive Restore operation via the command-line of GHOST.EXE (the main executable of Norton Ghost…
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How did Clonezilla create a drive image file in my NTFS drive's folder?

I ran Clonezilla, and for a drive image destination, I chose the "backup" folder at the root of my NTFS drive. The operation completed successfully; however, upon rebooting into Windows, there was no trace of the file(s). I opened Disk Manager,…
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Ghost / Drive Clone Software

Possible Duplicate: How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive? Not actually a question per-se but what cloning software do people use? I will personally be using it in support and recovery enviroments -…
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restore a smaller hard drive 320GB image to a larger harddrive 1TB

I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in size. Would I be able to restore this image on a larger hard drive? I plan buying a 1TB hard…
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