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How does one create a System Image of an entire Windows10 installation onto a 128GB thumb drive? I tried doing it through the Windows 10 System Image tool but it sees a thumb drive as an invalid storage device. Then I Googled the subject and learned I need to convert the thumb drive to a Local Disk. Can anyone out there recommend the best app to use to convert a thumb drive to a Local Disk?
Another option I learned about is to backup to a network location and convert the thumb drive to a network drive. However, I am unable to find any info that will show me how to convert my thumb drive to a network drive.
My goal is to install my thumb drive and transfer it over to my blank SSD drive if I ever have to rebuild it in the future.
Any info will be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.
First, I think you should plug your thumb drive into another computer to confirm that your thumb drive is available. And if it is normal, there is something wrong with the Windows 10 system image tool. I recommend a perfect backup software - AOMEI Backupper which can create a system image of an entire Windows 10 installation. You can just download this freeware, install and launch it. Then you follow the wizard of System Backup function of AOMEI Backupper. What need to pay attention to is you must plug your thumb drive into your computer before launch AOMEI Backupper, just to confirming the device can be detected.
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I noticed that whenever I open a Google Colab notebook my system fans go high and all of my 4 cores show huge usage (on my ubuntu laptop). Clearly a lot of JS is running on my system.
However, when I host a Jupiter notebook on another machine and use that from my laptop, all the resource usage is normal.
Q: Is there a way to make Google Colab use minimal resources of my PC?
While google colab is an awesome way to share my code (and ask questions), the sound from fan speed annoys me a lot.
p.s; If this is not th right plac to ask this, kindly let me know where can I ask it?
Check if your Google Colab is running in local runtime. By default, it runs on its own Compute Engine, but you do have the option to alter it.
P.S It could also be Google Chrome simply using too many resources when running Colab. Try Edge or other lesser power-hungry browsers.
I was running Linux in an ARM-based detailed CPU model in FS mode, and I was doing the checkpoint after the first time I launched the CPU. However, I needed to frequently transfer files to the ARM Linux, so I am wondering if there is any way to do so without re-launching the CPU model again (e.g., directly transfer files to linux through sftp, or mounting the host file system)? Great thanks!
Currently, I just added the files to the Linux disk image, and relaunched the CPU model from scratch (which takes more than 1.5 hours).
Here are the possibilities that I'm aware of:
use 9P. Semi outdated patch at: http://gem5.org/WA-gem5 but easy to get working again.
9P is designed explicitly to mount host directories on guest, and is therefore the nicest solution.
See also: https://github.com/cirosantilli2/gem5-issues/issues/24
QEMU example.
use a second disk image, normally squashfs which is easy to generate quickly and conveniently.
unmount, make changes to image, remount. So a bit annoying, but doable, and possibly the easiest to get working.
Not currently exposed on fs.py, patch mentioned at: How to attach multiple disk images in a simulation with gem5 fs.py?
m5 readfile + zip.
OK, this is likely going to be slow, just mentioning it ;-)
guest to host networking: as you mentioned, if that were possible, you could mount FTPs around
However I don't think it is supported, see: How to do port forwarding from guest to host and vice versa in gem5?
Also it would require messing with NFS setups on host / guest, which is always a bad thing.
With QEMU, as usual, it is possible.
The current situation is a mess. The main reason is that it is a bit hard to nicely integrate 9P / multidisk into fs.py. But I'm certain it is possible, we just need a brave soul.
Related thread about how to expand an existing disk image if space is your concern: https://www.mail-archive.com/gem5-users#gem5.org/msg16494.html
Mailing list thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/gem5-users#gem5.org/msg16477.html
Is there any way to make a file automatically run when USB or hard drive is plugged to a computer?
I have tried with the autorun.inf file, but the function has been removed in win 7 and 8.
Microsoft has disabled this feature by default on 'non-optical drives' from Windows 7 and onward in order to reduce chances of malware being run. This was replaced with the 'AutoPlay' prompt, which asks the user what they would like to do before executing any applications.
A common malware attack against businesses is to leave a USB drive where an unsuspecting employee will find it. Usually curiosity gets the better of the employee and they insert the newly-found USB drive into their company computer to "see whats on it". If the computer allows any program to run when the drive is mounted (as autorun.inf used to allow) then a virus can execute immediately without any further user input.
Here's some more in-depth reading on the subject - http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2009/04/28/autorun-changes-in-windows-7.aspx
I'd like to boot VirtualBox to the external hard drive I have that runs Windows 8 To Go, as the computer running virtual box is one that I can't boot to the drive during certain hours, but I'd still like to be able to interact with the OS on that drive.
I found a guide for creating a raw VM DK disk file for my external drive, and ran the commands for it in an administrator command prompt, which was listed as a requirement in the article I was reading.
At first, I'd boot to the drive with my VirtualBox machine, and it would ask me to enter the BitLocker encryption password.
I'd enter it, and before the spinning circles of the Windows loading logo would make a complete rotation, VBox would give me an error popup saying "Error: VERR_ACCESS DENIED".
I researched the issue a bit online and found that some users had resolved this issue by turning on 'Use host I/O cache' on the VirtualBox Storage controller.
I tried this, and the machine did indeed make it farther and stopped displaying an error message, only now it stays on the windows loading screen indefinitely, or may even restart itself.
I checked the log file and am seeing several non-displayed error messages of 'VERR_ACCESS DENIED".
Running virtual box itself as an administrator has had no effect.
Has anyone else tried this successfully? Does anyone have any tips?
I'd appreciate productive suggestions instead of criticism against 'why' I'm doing something.
Thank you!
Does anyone know if it is possible to access the iPad's camera connection kit? I would like to read the files off the connected mass storage device. Would this be possible or is this something that only Apple can do in their apps.
Thanks
I know this is an old question, but google brought me here so I thought I'd add this link for the next person to come along.
The good news is this. USB drives do mount properly and show up in the system as /dev/disk2s1. Yay. You can even add more drives via a hub. The iPad supports both FAT and HFS+ drives.
The bad news is this. As iPhone developer Dustin Howett discovered,
that mount point is sandboxed away from normal developer use. You
cannot read from or write to that disk using standard iPhone SDK
applications.