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How should I image a hard drive in a platform independent and future-proof manner?

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What methods of producing hard drive images stand out with regards to being platform independent and standing a good chance of usability in the future. Some considerations: Can the imaging program be run on a variety of OS, disk, paritition, and file system types? Can the image by mounted in place …

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Something I'm doing for a client sort of addresses these needs. We'll be using VirtualBox.org to make it usable in the future... Step 1: Create a VirtualBox.org computer, with adequate disk space Step 2: Install the needed OS (in this case, Windows …

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