How to Make an ISO Disk Image of a Microsoft Office Disk. An ISO disc image is a special file that stores the contents of an entire CD or DVD on your computer hard drive.

Depending on your Mac, Disk Utility can take several minutes to create this disk image and save it for you.

Win32 Disk Imager is a free tool for Windows to write an IMG file to removable device and backup your removable device to a raw image file.

Disk images in OS X are one mode of packaging files for distribution or storage on external media, and, since they mimic the behaviors of optical discs like DVDs, they are commonly used by ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options.

Making an ISO image of a hard drive means creating a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Here are two ways to do just that.

Creating a disk image for a data center server doesn't have to be challenging. Jack Wallen shows you how easily this can be done with the help of GNOME Disk.

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions.

So I thought I'd use the MS Windows 7 USB/DVD installer tool to make a bootable flash drive of the .IMG file. Unfortunately, the tool only works with ISO's not IMG's. Next I tried Win32 Disk Imager.

So, if you want to have access to the image backup file, you’ll need to mount it or attach it in Disk Management. Press Win+X in combination and choose the Disk Management option.

Alternatively, if you have backed up copies of the files on the disk image, you can create a new disk image and copy the files to it as described in Knowledge Base article #305111. Feedback?

Figure B The first time you access a VHD in a system image, you’ll need to use Disk Management. There are actually two VHD files, and you want to use the largest one.