Other External disk image

Hello,

I used to have more external disks than I have now, and I quite need to use one that I normally use as a time machine for some apple machines (I don't have a mac myself)

I use it for backups and migrations and there are some historical backups on there I want to keep.

Is it possible with some app to just take an image of this external disk on my windows computer, format the drive to use it for a few things I need to use it for, and then if I need I can re-image it with my image and it would work fine again as a mac time machine location?

Thanks!

 

It's formatted as HFS+ or whatever at the moment, no? Do you have access to a mac at all, at the moment? If so, probably best to make a .dmg image on the mac. CloneZilla might otherwise work but I have never used it for a Mac HDD.

 

Can you make a .dmg of an external disk?

Sigh I do have a mac but I never turn it on, I guess I will have to use that!

 

Yes I believe so - you can back up the disc to an image file if memory serves

 

I can't vouch for the usefulness, or if it would do what you need, but maybe Paragon HFS for Windows is worth a look.

 

I use HDClone which doesn't really care what format the drive is in, you can clone it, or create an image file of the disk

 

Thanks

thanks I didn't know that was a thing.

Perfect Rich! Thanks buddy.