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I've had good luck with Sysinternals Disk2VHD. I've run it from live installs of Windows, saved the resultant VHD to another drive, then spun it up in Virtualbox. Source: 12 months ago
A really quick and easy way to back up a a drive is to use the SysInternals Disk2VHD tool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd. Source: about 1 year ago
In addition to individually copying important files and folders, use Disk2vhd from Microsoft Sysinternals. Check "Use VHDX" and "Use Volume Shadow Copy" and check all volumes the HDD contains but not any volumes from other disks. Create separate files if backing up multiple disks. Source: about 1 year ago
Do it with https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd it has saved me many times with legacy OS. No restart needed. Source: over 1 year ago
You can create an image backup of all intact contents within all partitions of the HDD, using Sysinternals Disk2vhd. This won't include deleted files and unused space. Source: over 1 year ago
For HDDs, you'll want to use a program called DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) to wipe it. It's included in the Ultimate Boot CD, and you can make that a bootable USB instead by using Rufus. Source: over 1 year ago
Someone below commented to use rufus. That tool is meant for flashing OS install images, but just using the format section should work fine. I use GParted's livecd, although that might be a bit overkill for a quick format. Source: almost 2 years ago
I would just download the ISO by itself. You don't really need the "assistant". Just mount the ISO with Rufus. Source: over 2 years ago
Maybe download the installers for Fedora & Tumbleweed and boot to the USB Drive you install the .iso file on to 'try' a distro first instead of destroying you current setup for the totally unknown world of linux. Use Rufus to create the bootable USB drive and HashTab to check the .iso files checksum. https://rufus.akeo.ie/. Source: almost 3 years ago
For HDDs, you'll want to use a program called DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) to wipe it. It's included in the Ultimate Boot CD, and you can make that a bootable USB instead by using Rufus. Source: almost 3 years ago
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