Disk Image in Binary Format

[Neeti]

Hi All,

I want to use a tool to create a disk image of one of FAT32 partition
on my hard disk, but I want the image to be generated should be a
binary file.

Later I want to use this binary file and burn it on a flash so that my
flash shall have FAT32 format.

Can anyone guide me how to achieve this? As per my understanding the
Flash programmer can burn only binary data so I want tool to generate
binary image.

Please help me in knowing which tool generates a binary disk image.?

Regards
Neeti.

 

[Pegasus]

Hi All,

I want to use a tool to create a disk image of one of FAT32 partition
on my hard disk, but I want the image to be generated should be a
binary file.

Later I want to use this binary file and burn it on a flash so that my
flash shall have FAT32 format.

Can anyone guide me how to achieve this? As per my understanding the
Flash programmer can burn only binary data so I want tool to generate
binary image.

Please help me in knowing which tool generates a binary disk image.?

Regards
Neeti.

All disk imaging programs store images in binary format,
without exception. On restoration they recreate the original
file system, e.g. FAT, FAT32 or NTFS.

 

[Neeti]

Hi,

As per my knowledge the Ghost software creates .gho gormat, Acronis
true image creates image in .tib format. They have there own propriety
formats. Which tool makes a .bin file?

Neeti.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

As per my knowledge the Ghost software creates .gho gormat, Acronis
true image creates image in .tib format. They have there own propriety
formats. Which tool makes a .bin file?

Neeti.

You need to distinguish between ASCII (which covers the alphabet
characters such as A-Z plus CRLF) and binary (which covers
everything from $00 to $FF). Files with only ASCII characters inside
usually have a .txt extension. Binary files can have any extension and
it is up to the manufacturer to select one. AFAIK, there is no
universally agreed format for a .bin file.

Why are you focusing so strongly on .bin files? What do you
expect from them? What tool do you want to use to handle
such a file? What's wrong with the files created by Ghost or
by Acronis?

 

[Neeti]

BTW am implementing a USB Mass Storage device using Flash memory.

I will expain you the requirement:- Say for example I use Ghost tool.
and create an image(FAT32.gho) of FAT32 partition of my hard disk. I
will take FAT32.gho open it in binary mood and load it into a serial
flash on the board. When I plug in the USB into Windows machine,
Windows should be able to understand the FAT32 partition on my USB
Mass storage device.

If the Ghost tool is using some proprietary format and is not exactly
cloning the hard disk bit by bit windows cannot recognise the
partition. Even if Ghost adds a 2 or 4 byte header to image it
created, windows wont recognise the FAT32 format.

I may not say I need a .bin file rather I shall say I need a tool and
explaination on format of the binary image it has created, so that I
can write only bytes relevant to windows on the flash.

I hope I am able to expain you my problem. Can you help me in this?

Neeti.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

BTW am implementing a USB Mass Storage device using Flash memory.

I will expain you the requirement:- Say for example I use Ghost tool.
and create an image(FAT32.gho) of FAT32 partition of my hard disk. I
will take FAT32.gho open it in binary mood and load it into a serial
flash on the board. When I plug in the USB into Windows machine,
Windows should be able to understand the FAT32 partition on my USB
Mass storage device.

If the Ghost tool is using some proprietary format and is not exactly
cloning the hard disk bit by bit windows cannot recognise the
partition. Even if Ghost adds a 2 or 4 byte header to image it
created, windows wont recognise the FAT32 format.

I may not say I need a .bin file rather I shall say I need a tool and
explaination on format of the binary image it has created, so that I
can write only bytes relevant to windows on the flash.

I hope I am able to expain you my problem. Can you help me in this?

Neeti.

You don't mean "binary" format - you actually mean "bit" format.
In other words, you want an image file that is a bit-by-bit
representation of your disk data, without any proprietary
data added. I think that some standard Unix/Linux tools
can do this, which probably means that their Windows
implementations can do it too.

I suggest you ask a Linux person how he would do this,
then look for a Windows compilation of this Linux tool.

 

[Neeti]

Thanks