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anamardoll · 04-29-2011, 09:24 PM

I'm glad someone found it helpful!

So here's a question for the smarter people:

I want to backup everything I've done on my SD card because I've loaded a lot of apps and data, etc., etc. from the Google Market. Am I right in thinking that I can put my SD card in the computer, use WinImage to "Create Virtual Hard Disk image from physical drive..." off my SD card as a complete backup?

And then if I ever lost my card and had to replace it, I could just write that backup image to a new, similarly-sized card, slap it into the Nook, and then everything would be just as it was when I performed the backup?

That sounds right, but I don't have an extra 32gb sitting around to TEST it.

EDIT: Hmm. That didn't behave the way I thought it would... after it went through the progress bar, at the end it asked me to choose one of four partitions. Do I have to do the "Create image" process once for each partition??

Does anyone know how to back these cards up entirely?

04-29-2011, 09:24 PM	#54
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	I'm glad someone found it helpful! So here's a question for the smarter people: I want to backup everything I've done on my SD card because I've loaded a lot of apps and data, etc., etc. from the Google Market. Am I right in thinking that I can put my SD card in the computer, use WinImage to "Create Virtual Hard Disk image from physical drive..." off my SD card as a complete backup? And then if I ever lost my card and had to replace it, I could just write that backup image to a new, similarly-sized card, slap it into the Nook, and then everything would be just as it was when I performed the backup? That sounds right, but I don't have an extra 32gb sitting around to TEST it. EDIT: Hmm. That didn't behave the way I thought it would... after it went through the progress bar, at the end it asked me to choose one of four partitions. Do I have to do the "Create image" process once for each partition?? Does anyone know how to back these cards up entirely? Last edited by anamardoll; 04-29-2011 at 10:10 PM.