I created an image out of Win95 hard disk. It is about 540MB.
I'd like to export the image to another hard disk or external USB drive so that I can use the hard disk or USB drive to boot another computer.
Which tool would I need?
We need a bit more information before we can give you any advice.
What did you use to image it?
Are you wanting to run the image in a different computer or the same computer?
Do you want to put it in a virtual machine?
These things will determine what help we can give you.
Bascially what I want is to have a duplicate copy of a hard drive that can boot from itself.
I connected the IDE hard drive internally. It has Win95 in it and it can boot from itself.
I ran my PC with Ubuntu live CD, and then mounted the hard drive (mount /dev/xxx /mnt/fat16). I connected an external USB hard drive and mounted it (mount /dev/yyy /mnt/usb). The USB was mounted with read only device, so I had to force it to be writable.
Then, I used dd command (dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/usb/fat16.img).
Now I got an image from the IDE in the usb drive. I can view the image by using FTK imager. But, how can I make a usb hard drive (or any other hard drive) bootable from itself as witht the original hard drive?
If it's a raw dd image, have you looked to LiveView?
http//liveview.sourceforge.net/
The web page says that it works with Win98…maybe giving it a shot w/ Win95 might prove fruitful.
If you want to make it a bootable disk or USB flash drive, well, a simple Google search turned up a great many useful links
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Narrowing that down to Win95
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HTH
Bascially what I want is to have a duplicate copy of a hard drive that can boot from itself.
I connected the IDE hard drive internally. It has Win95 in it and it can boot from itself.
I ran my PC with Ubuntu live CD, and then mounted the hard drive (mount /dev/xxx /mnt/fat16). I connected an external USB hard drive and mounted it (mount /dev/yyy /mnt/usb). The USB was mounted with read only device, so I had to force it to be writable.Then, I used dd command (dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/usb/fat16.img).
Now I got an image from the IDE in the usb drive. I can view the image by using FTK imager. But, how can I make a usb hard drive (or any other hard drive) bootable from itself as witht the original hard drive?
Ehr, how about
dd if=/dev/usb/fat16.img of=/dev/whatever ?
Or am I overlooking something?
Roland
Ehr, how about
dd if=/dev/usb/fat16.img of=/dev/whatever ?
Or am I overlooking something?
Ha, would it be that simple?
I will try it.
Basically, I can inspect the image file by using FTK imager, but I would also want to have a duplicate copy of the original that can boot from another computer, then I have an exact copy of the original machine. I will give a try.
One question should the drive used for output file be formatted with the same file system as the original? Or, could it be even done on an unformatted drive or a drive with different file system?
One question should the drive used for output file be formatted with the same file system as the original? Or, could it be even done on an unformatted drive or a drive with different file system?
You joking, right? 😯
You are operating at physical drive level.
What you dd to a physical device will start overwriting whatever is on the target device from offset 0, thus overwriting MBR, hidden sectors, at least first partition bootsector and filesystem structures.
It is exactly the same if the drive is partitioned/formatted or not, since this info will be re-written.
Any data existing on the drive before the dd, including partitions besides first one, will become inaccessible.
jaclaz
Well, I look stupid, but it works!
Thanks. This is the first time I am working on these stuffs.
On a similar note, if I have a DD image of a CD, can I put dd it to a blank CD? I took a DD image of a game my son has that is badly damaged (surprised I got the DD image to be frank). I'd like to take it and put it on a blank CD so that my son could actually play the game. Would I just do a
dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/cdrom
?
Thanks ahead of time…..
Tom
On a similar note, if I have a DD image of a CD, can I put dd it to a blank CD?
Not really similar, but don't worry. )
A dd image of a CD, if done properly, is a .iso image of it.
You cannot "dd back" to a CD, but you can use any CD burning app using the dd image you have as .iso source.
If you don't have a suitable one
ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
IMGBURN is freeware and tiny
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jaclaz