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Win32DiskImager fails to launch

I downloaded Win32DiskImager from SourceForge, as was recommended in some Linux installation instruction (coming from Windows). The installer runs successfully and the program is installed into C:\Program Files (x86) as expected. When launching…
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dd under windows for SD Card

I'm having problem to use this command under windows dd if=*file* of=/dev/sdx bs=512 seek=2 conv=fsync Using cygwin shell: $ dd if=file of=/cygdrive/f bs=512 seek=2 conv=fsync dd: failed to open ‘/cygdrive/f’: Is a directory F: is the letter…
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Creating an image of an Android phone

Does anyone know how to create a 1:1 disk image of an Android phone? I am taking a forensics course and our final project involves creating tools to recover information from a suspect's Android based phone, however to do this we need to be able to…
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How do I use a dd-created image, that's bigger than the original disk?

I created a backup of flash card, using: dd bs=4M if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=backup.img Now, trying to restore that back to the same card with Etcher, I'm told the image is bigger than the card, and I need 300+Mb of more space. Should I be creating the…
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Is the ntfs metadata $LogFile deletable?

I am willing to write an backup application that: read a ntfs partition without using windows api (done) write a bootable ntfs partition from the data it saved (planned) i have a problem with $logfile, im scared that if i simply copy it, it could…
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What's the best Mac custom disk image creation app?

I'm looking for a custom disk image creation app that I can integrate into the build process for my app (which means I need to be able to run it from the command line if possible). My desired features are that it will size the image for me, let me…
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Ghost 12 - can't multicast across subnets

Is there some trick so that I can multicast a Ghost image across subnets? I've tried -TTL7 on the server and -JS=7 on the clients (# of hops).
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Windows Automated Install vs Imaging

Is it better to create a reference image and clone that image on all of the machines or is it better to use the the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to do an automated install on every machine? In a Lab setting with 25 identical machines why is one…
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