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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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by Disk Utility include: Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility...
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manipulate disk image files are as follows, comparing their disk image handling features. Specifies whether the application can create a new disc image file...
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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...
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List of built-in macOS apps (redirect from Disk Image Mounter)
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...
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VirtualBox (redirect from VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image)
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...
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of the disk or partition)) and (2) full system images (which consist of files, directories and disk metadata). The software can create full disk backup...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IMG (file format) (section Other disk image files)
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,...
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A boot image is a type of disk image (a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a storage medium). When it is transferred onto...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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QEMU (section Supported disk image formats)
(unmodified) base image file. This provides the possibility for reverting the emulated disk's contents to an earlier state. For example, a base image could hold...
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disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating image scanning...
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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...
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VHD (file format) (redirect from Virtual Hard Disk)
VHD and VHDX Image Format Specifications available to third parties under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. A Virtual Hard Disk allows multiple...
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Defragmentation (redirect from Disk defragmenter)
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...
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Loop device (redirect from Vnode disk)
then be mounted as if it were a disk device. Files of this kind are often used for CD ISO images and floppy disk images. Mounting a file containing a file...
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help deploy Microsoft Windows operating system images to target computers or to a virtual hard disk image in VHD format. It was first introduced with Windows...
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No-disc crack (redirect from No-disk crack)
mini image containing only enough of the software's CD-ROM contents needed to bypass protection. This image can then be mounted with a disk image emulator...
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Macrium Reflect (category Disk image emulators)
Microsoft Windows developed by Paramount Software UK Ltd in 2006. It creates disk images and file backup archives using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to...
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A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...
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