Create an image of a memory card

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Hello.I need to create an image(.img) of a memory card and i have to do this with coding in VB. I have no ideas in how to do this. Can anyone help me... with code or algorithms? Thanks

Posted 17-Jan-11 22:37pm

sandeep man

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Dave Kreskowiak 18-Jan-11 10:07am

Are you saying that you just need to draw a stick of memory on screen? Or are you talking about a visual map of memory?? Or what?? You need to be more specific than this.

Nithin Sundar 20-Jan-11 22:34pm

From what I understand, you want to create a an image of a memory card with all the data in it? The way you create CD images like .iso and .bin?

sandeep man 21-Jan-11 0:31am

Yes, i need to create an image of the memory card with all data in it like .iso or .img file.Just like a disk dump work.I need to do this by coding on vb.

Indivara 21-Jan-11 10:30am

Reasonable question for a rookie, no need to vote down

Henry Minute 21-Jan-11 11:32am

Quite right.

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Indivara · Answer 1 · 2011-01-21T04:28:00

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According to Wikipedia, the IMG format is a raw dump of the disk contents. Amazing what Google can teach you ;)
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=589818[^]
(search for raw disk access if this one doesn't work)

Posted 21-Jan-11 4:28am

Indivara

Nish Nishant · Answer 2 · 2011-01-21T04:35:00

Raw data access may not be very straightforward to do, specially with more restrictions in doing that in recent OSes like Vista and Windows 7. If you merely need to backup memory cards and then create copies when required, you could just do a copy of all the files and directories starting with the root folder. As an extra you could also store the name of the memory card, so you could also reproduce that when you make the copies. Using a raw image (kinda like an iso) won't give you any advantages over that really (unless you are looking for some high performance high volume data replication).