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describes the process of creating an exact copy of a data storage media.

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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? What are the pros and cons of native versus third-party…
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Detecting blank image files

I am using scanimage with a document scanner (Canon DR-2510C) that supports duplex scanning. Unfortunately, its SANE driver does not support blank page detection, so that with mixed pages (single/double-sided), blank pages make it into the scan…
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dd_rescue vs dcfldd vs dd

What are the main differences between dd_rescue, dcfldd, and dd? In what situations would you use one over the other? Why are there three different yet simliar programs?
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Why does Windows7 create two partitions?

I installed Windows7 Ultimate from scratch, and it warns that it might create a 100MB partition before creating a second one where the real stuff lives. This makes imaging more complicated. # fdisk -lu Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376…
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Access data from a linux partition inside an image without root privileges

I have a whole-drive image file containing a partition table and some partitions. I would like to list and read files from an ext2/ext3 partition inside this file. Using root priveleges, it is somehow complicatied but possible to mount into some…
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Imaging UEFI computers

We are buying computers for a new building, but our current imaging software, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5, does not support imaging of UEFI computers. I’m hesitant to dummy down 300-500 computers into legacy mode so I can manage them with…
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Can Clonezilla clone a computer that is running live over a network? Can anything?

I saw a similar but not duplicate question. Is it possible to use Clonezilla to clone a computer over the network? Now I have to boot into the CD like always, but wondered if it could be done. If it can't what could I use do to it? These are all…
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What is a golden bitstream

In the context of boards, like framegrabbers.... if the bitstream fails it will go through the golden bitstream.... Something like that, can anyone put some light on this matter for me ? I remember hearing about the subject in one of my meetings so…
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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 111M 1.5G 0% /tmp ... On a live machine, how…
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Where can I store driver files so that Windows sees them when it 'searches automatically' for them?

I am in the process of creating a few generic images and I have downloaded all the drivers for all the models of machines we use here. I can extract these drivers to any location but I am not sure where Windows looks when it is searching for…
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How to get a listing for properties of many image files?

I am looking for a tool that can process directories or directory trees containing image files and output a line-by-line plaintext directory listing of file names and image properties. I am mainly interested in dumping out resolution and color…
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What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard disk

I got myself a dell laptop from the local computer store. Its a used machine with Windows Vista Home Basic on it. I want to load Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 though so I can do perl development. BUT I want to keep a copy of the entire harddrive with the…
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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 pass my configuration file using the -ConfigFilePath…
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Can I get Windows Backup and Restore to save more than one system image backup on a single drive?

I've been using legacy (Windows 7) Backup and Restore on a Windows 10 Pro system to generate system image backups that can be restored from bare metal. A major limitation of the tool, however, is that I can only have one image stored on a particular…
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FOG to deploy only the first partition of HDD

i am using FOG (free opensource ghost) for cloning computers i want to image only the first partition of my HDD which would be my system drive c: i have tried all the options size partition(resizable),multiple partition single disk etc but every…
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