A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device. Traditionally...

Apple Disk Image is a disk image format commonly used by the macOS operating system. When opened, an Apple Disk Image is mounted as a volume within the...

An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written...

destination drive or to a disk image. Disk image Disk cloning Backup List of backup software List of data recovery software List of disk partitioning software...

apple.disk-image-dc42) DART disk image (.dart, com.apple.disk-image-dart) NDIF disk image (.ndif, .img, com.apple.disk-image-ndif); NDIF disk image segment...

could clone a disk or partition to another disk or partition or to an image file. GHOST allows for writing a clone or image to a second disk in the same...

manipulate disk image files are as follows, comparing their disk image handling features. Specifies whether the application can create a new disc image file...

emulates hard disks in three formats: the native VDI (Virtual Disk Image), VMware's VMDK, and Microsoft's VHD. It thus supports disks created by other...

(destination) drive or to a disk image. Typically, the destination drive is connected to a computer (Fig. 1). Once connected, a disk cloner is used to perform...

behaves like an actual physical device. A virtual disk may be in any of the following forms: Disk image, a computer file that contains the exact data structure...

Image for Windows is a disk imaging utility for Microsoft Windows developed by TeraByte Unlimited. When first released in 2002, it was one of two disk...

The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format. It was developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows Vista and subsequent versions...

written to a disk (i.e. on a disk image), then a system image can be produced by copying the disk to a file elsewhere, often with disk cloning applications...

A boot image is a type of disk image that when on a boot device allows the associated computer to boot. A boot image usually includes an operating system...

(hard disk, optical disk, tape, etc.) in the enterprise as a single pool of storage." A "storage system" is also known as a storage array, disk array...

VHD and VHDX Image Format Specifications available to third parties under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. A Virtual Hard Disk allows multiple...

store raw disk images of floppy disks, hard drives, and optical discs or a bitmap image – .img. The .img filename extension is used by disk image files,...

by Disk Utility include: Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility...

partition in DMG images format. In February 2015, CleverFiles launched a Windows version of its data recovery software for macOS. While in beta, Disk Drill for...

A System Deployment Image (aka SDI) is a file format used primarily with Microsoft products to contain an arbitrary disk image, including boot sector information...

A sparse image is a type of disk image file used on macOS that grows in size as the user adds data to the image, taking up only as much disk space as...

relevant to file systems on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write...

VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware...

disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating image scanning...

and virtual disk images) from the BIOS or the operating system. The geometry information is required for a successful recovery. TestDisk reads sectors on...

(unmodified) base image file. This provides the possibility of reverting the emulated disk's contents to an earlier state. For example, a base image could hold...

"Image" is a song by American duo Magdalena Bay from their second album, Imaginal Disk (2024). It was released through Mom + Pop Music on July 10, 2024...

floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...

file format for disk image files used by QEMU, a hosted virtual machine monitor. It stands for "QEMU Copy On Write" and uses a disk storage optimization...

The terms Recovery disc (or Disk), Rescue Disk/Disc and Emergency Disk all refer to a capability to boot from an external device, possibly a thumb drive...