{"id":61,"date":"2004-08-01T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/can-i-save-image-files-to-the-same-partition-being-imaged-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:04:06","slug":"can-i-save-image-files-to-the-same-partition-being-imaged-2","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/can-i-save-image-files-to-the-same-partition-being-imaged-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Save Image Files to the Same Partition Being Imaged?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You won't be prevented from saving image files to the partition being imaged, but you should <em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em> do so.&nbsp; If you ignore this advice and save image files to the same partition as the one being imaged, you may very well end up with a partition image which has a file system in an inconsistent state.&nbsp; Another possibility under these circumstances is an imaging process that does not complete normally, but rather continues until no more disk space is left.&nbsp; These things&nbsp;can occur because the image files are being created at the same time the imaging process itself is carried out.<\/p>\r\n  <p><font style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f9f9f9\">If you restore from an image which was created under these circumstances, be sure to run <strong>Scandisk<\/strong> or <strong>CHKDSK<\/strong> on the restored partition.&nbsp; If you are presented with an option regarding lost clusters, delete them.<\/font><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t be prevented from saving image files to the partition being imaged, but you should not do so.&nbsp; If you ignore this advice and save image files to the same partition as the one being imaged, you may very well end up with a partition image which has a file system in an inconsistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1776],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2122],"class_list":["post-61","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-faq-image-for-dos","lsvr_kba_tag-image-for-dos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/61\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}