A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's content – typically stored in a file on another storage device. Traditionally, a disk image was relatively...
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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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Musically, Imaginal Disk is a synth-pop, dance-pop, and electronic rock album. It was supported by four singles—"Death & Romance", "Image", "Tunnel Vision"...
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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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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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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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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...
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High Sierra and later. Disk Drill can be also used as a backup utility for creating copies of the disk or partition in DMG images format. In February 2015...
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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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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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IMG (file format) (section Comparison to ISO images)
some cases, a tool can detect aspects of an image file's content. For example, a typical floppy disk raw image begins with a FAT boot sector, which can be...
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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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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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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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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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Data recovery (redirect from Rescue disk)
replacing parts in the hard disk. This alone may make the disk usable, but there may still be logical damage. A specialized disk-imaging procedure is used to...
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QEMU (section Supported disk image formats)
Virtual disk images can be stored in QCOW format, which can significantly reduce image size. QCOW images only occupy the actual used disk space, not...
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EXE to Shockwave DCR". "Dir format - reverseShockwave". "Virtual Hard Disk Image Format Specification". "Draco Bitstream Specification". google.github...
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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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computer's memory or a disk image. Unlike hex editors, which are used to edit files, a disk editor allows access to the underlying disk structures, such as...
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and virtual disk images) from the BIOS or the operating system. The geometry information is required for a successful recovery. TestDisk reads sectors on...
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& UDO) Which filesystems the application supports. Information which Disk image formats an application supports. Support for Rainbow book standards: Red...
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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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