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Use this tag for questions related with DiskImage, a tool to backup and restore partitions, entire harddisks, usb keys, floppy drives and (read-only) optical media on windows platforms.

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How Can I create Snapshot of Disk of Local Machine/ VM

How can I create snapshot of disks of local machine or any VM disk in python. I have read about google cloud snapshots, Here is python code """ BEFORE RUNNING: --------------- 1. If not already done, enable the Compute Engine API and check the…
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Where are the first executed bytes of a bootable cd?

I took a look into the iso images (ISO 9660) of small Linux distributions. I found 16 empty sectors, followed by a sector describing the Primary Volume Description. Next sector is commonly a Boot Record containing only descriptive information such…
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What are the pros and cons of building from source versus installing from a Disk Image on OS X?

What are the pros and cons of installing things like Python and Git from source instead of simply using the community provided Disk Image on OS X? Dan Benjamin has an article about "Using /usr/local". However, given that the Git DMG installs into…
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SQLiteexception database disk image is malformed

I have a weird error with a SQLite Database: You can download it here Everytime I try to insert something in the Table "CurrencyTransactions" it fails because a new column called 7 appeared for no reason. I tried to drop the table but I ran PRAGMA…
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"Minimal Image" of Raspberry Pi SD Card

I have a small IOT app that I've developed on a Raspberry Pi. I'd like to try running the app of a few other Pi's around my apartment. I can make a disk image of the sd card with dd, but, the original disk is 32gb and mostly empty. Is there a way to…
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how to manage google compute engine group of instances disk image?

We are trying to create a horizontaly Scalable web service via Google Compute Engine. In order to do so, we have created an Instance Template and a Group of Instances based on this new template. The group of instances create a new virtual machine…
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structure with linked-list memory dump

is there any standard approach which I've missed at school to dump C structure with nested linked lists on disk in reasonable way? What I don't want to do is: use protocol-buffers or any other like serializators, don't want to create JSON, XML or…
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Change Windows 7 boot disk via PowerShell script

I have a machine with two separate drives, the main drive (call it C:) I am constantly reimaging with different versions of Windows using PowerShell and the other drive (call it D:) I am keeping a static image of Windows 7. Currently I have the main…
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Ext2 utility "e2cp" alternative for OS X

In my linux machines, I use the command line utility e2cp to copy files from and to ext2 disk images. Unfortunately, OS X does not provide any ext2fs utility out of the box. Is there a version of e2cp that is compatible to OS X, or a similar…
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assembly language bootable disk editor/compiler?

recently I have been involved with a few assembly projects with my friends but me being the primary programmer. compiling codes, and putting them on a disk with a separate computer has become a tedious and annoying task. I want to know if there is…
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How to create a linux image file

I want to do some kernel development, and have downloaded the latest version from kernel.org, done changes, and compiled it. So far everything went well. Now I want to run it in User-Mode-Linux, so I can test it. I have found this site which…
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Make Linux ext2 file system disk image

How do you construct a file system disk image and then look at its disk layout in bitmap files? How do you add directories to it? I've used mkfs.ext2 on a file that I made using dd, but I'm not sure if it’s done correctly. I need to be able to see…
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Extracting a JPEGs from a disk image

I've been trying to make a program that can extract all the jpeg files in a selected disk image. I know there are 7 JPEG files in the disk image I'm testing it on and yet the code I made can only extract 2 of them. I'd like to ask what I might be…
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What is the best way to combine a large number of small files to maximize recoverability

I have sets of large numbers of files (~5000 per directory) which are significantly slowing down my file system access. I have plenty of space, and the data is important. I'd like to combine them into a single file per directory. Creating an archive…
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How can I convert E01 image file to dd image file?

I'm working on forensics tools and I have Encase E01 type image file. I would like to analyze this image by using other tools. However, those tools such as tsk_recover doesn't accept E01 file type as input. So, I need to convert E01 image file to dd…
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