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Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 18:21:49 No.1459971 View View Reply Original Report

Hello, requesting instructions on how to mirror what's on a USB to my PC so I can put it on a different one in the future in case the first USB dies. I've recently made a Batocera bootable USB but made a lot of changes directly in it, and I don't want to have to do all that again in the future. Thank you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 19:09:09 No.1459974 Report

Quoted By: >>1460104

>>1459971
HDD Raw Copy
https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
Make an image of your USB drive, write said image to other USB drive of equal or larger size

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 12:08:28 No.1460104 Report

Quoted By: >>1460111 >>1460112

>>1459974
Hello and thank you anon. I don't want to fuck up my hard drive though, and upon choosing the USB as Source and my HDD as Target, I get a warning that Target's (HDD) contents will be wiped. How can I avoid this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 13:28:09 No.1460111 Report

Quoted By: >>1460114

>>1460104
Oh, you selected that you'd like to copy over your HDD. You need to target a file, not the entire drive. I forget the exact options, I'm not at my PC to take screenshots. There should be a pulldown or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 13:32:40 No.1460112 Report

Quoted By: >>1460117

>>1460104
Found a guide
https://aeroquartet.com/treasured/hddguru.en.html
Do make yourself a compressed .imgc, your image is for storage, not data recovery

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 13:36:07 No.1460114 Report

Quoted By: >>1460117

>>1460111
Working on it now and I see what you mean. I don't understand what kind of file the target should be though; wouldn't this process create a file? I've gotten as far as creating a folder where I would like to house the image on my HDD, but I cannot select said folder in HDD Raw Copy as the final destination; I need to select a file. If I'm not making sense, I can provide screenshots.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 13:40:58 No.1460117 Report

Quoted By: >>1460121 >>1460127

>>1460114
I'm a fucking idiot, disregard this; I hadn't put a file name so it didn't let me save.
>>1460112
Sorry, you mean .imgc is what will let me put this on a future USB drive and .img isn't, or the other way around?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 14:38:05 No.1460121 Report

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>>1460117
Alright, I just made both a .imgc and a .img file to be safe, but the .img file is at 0 bytes, so I assume I messed up somewhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 15:10:15 No.1460127 Report

Quoted By: >>1460132

>>1460117
>Sorry, you mean .imgc is what will let me put this on a future USB drive and .img isn't, or the other way around?
Both are the exact same thing, but .imgc is smaller. Like if saving audio .wav is a full file while .flac is also full. But you don't have any particular need for uncompressed data
>file is at 0 bytes
Maybe just right-click n refresh the file browser, Windows could've still been thinking when the file popped up

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 15:33:03 No.1460132 Report

Quoted By: >>1460184

>>1460127
I refreshed prior to asking and it still read 0, but now after closing HDD Raw Copy it updated without even refreshing again, so I guess that's that problem solved. One final thing: with these files, do I just use balena or something to flash it onto a new USB whenever I need to? I've been trying to understand if I need to convert .img to .iso.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 22:35:14 No.1460184 Report

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>>1460132
IDK what that program you mentioned is. You can use HDD Raw Copy to write the image, much like you just nearly overwrote your HDD. The image will work with other utilities, it's the format DD uses on Linux, so whatever you find compatible with that should be fine

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