How to copy BeagleBoard image to a windows PC

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Nigel Beckles

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Jun 16, 2021, 12:21:48 PM6/16/21
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How to copy BeagleBoard image to a windows PC so that I can send it to a coworker?

Vinicius Juvinski

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Jun 16, 2021, 12:23:54 PM6/16/21
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Imgdiskwriter32 is an excellent tool to duplicate cards or generate images

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Em 16 de jun. de 2021, à(s) 13:21, Nigel Beckles <barj...@gmail.com> escreveu:

How to copy BeagleBoard image to a windows PC so that I can send it to a coworker?

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Nigel Beckles

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Jun 16, 2021, 12:38:19 PM6/16/21
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Hello Vinicius,

Thanks for responding to me. I have an emmc image on a SD card, I want to copy the image from the SD card to my PC.
When I put the SD card in the Pc, windows says it needs to format the drive, What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Nigel

jonnymo

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Jun 16, 2021, 12:45:13 PM6/16/21
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One option is to use something like DiskInternals:

I have never tried this myself though.

The other option is to use either VirtualBox or VMware Workstation Player to create a Debian or Ubuntu VM on your Windows system and use that to read the image from the eMMC.
Ex:


I would suspect  there is a Docker example of this somewhere.
 
Cheers,

Jon


Vinicius Juvinski

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Jun 16, 2021, 1:19:35 PM6/16/21
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Hi

You can ignore the message of your windows, in win32 will appear your drive as source , the put a file name on the image file and select read 

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Dennis Lee Bieber

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Jun 16, 2021, 5:45:31 PM6/16/21
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:37:05 -0700 (PDT), in
gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user Nigel Beckles
<barjam143-Re5JQE...@public.gmane.org> wrote:


>Thanks for responding to me. I have an emmc image on a SD card, I want to
>copy the image from the SD card to my PC.
>When I put the SD card in the Pc, windows says it needs to format the
>drive, What am I doing wrong?
>
Windows has no idea of how to access EXTn (Linux) file systems. As far
as Windows is concerned, inserting an SD card with EXT4 is the same as
inserting a never formatted SD card. Windows only reads FAT and NTFS cards.

Win32DiskImager https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ has
the ability to read a raw SD card. One problem is that it tends to require
an identical card for writing the image because it copies the entire card
layout, and a similar card may have reserved more blocks, meaning the image
won't fit the card. (Balena Etcher is write-only, but may be better for
that operation)


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