Talk:Disk image

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[edit] Proposals

[edit] Editorial History

[edit] Sub-division of article

This article became too unweildy to efficiently edit. I segregated into sub-articles optical disc image and individual archive formats. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 03:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite for easier comprehension

I've added in in two paragraphs at the start so that people who quickly want to find out what a CD/DVD-image is can see it plain and clear. It may be informal and whatnot, but I think many people would appreciate a quick explanation of the most popular image type. -plenk

  • I did not like the recent additions to the summary. I removed them to their appropriate sub-sections. The summary is supposed to be a concise statement. information should not be duplicated between the summary and the sub-sections. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 03:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

I moved disk image to optical disc image too hastily. I originally moved it because the article only talks about disk images w.r.t. optical discs, but I now decided it should be about disk images in general. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-15 12:43Z

[edit] Added section on the .DAA image format

Under the format heading I added an extra section on the .DAA image format -tomeedee

[edit] Removed section

I removed the section Shortcut for installing directly from an .IMG file, for three reasons:

  • The information was not encyclopedic IMHO, it would perhaps be better to add the text to a relevant user manual or forum.
  • The text was slightly unclear (for example, the information seemed to be very operating system-specific, while it didn't say which operating system it applied to)
  • The given reference was bad (just a link to a google search)

[edit] Comments & Questions

[edit] Disk or Disc

Simple question: which is the correct english word standard for wikipedia? Because there are articles that uses Disc and Disk, and thou they are the same I'd be better rather than using both words in wikipedia there should be only one. Thankyou. Xangel 17:26, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Spelling of disc has something to say on this topic. Vadmium 02:11, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I'm gonna use disc and disk then appropriatley as i edit the many articles of optical disc media. Thanks again. Xangel 17:30, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MODE1 MODE2

There's something i still dont get about .cue, why is it that some use MODE1 and MODE2? whats that all about.

[edit] Comment

This article is skewed towards CD disc images, which are popular now. Earlier disk imaging, from the age of floppy diskettes, was a way of archiving floppies to a hard disk such that you could either make backup disks, bypass copy protection, or install faster from the images when saved to a hard disk. It is likely that the CD image will go away in the next decade as we move to more massive storage devices.

[edit] Is LZW special?

Is LZW somehow special when it comes to Image formats so that it needs to be mentioned explicitly in the article (ie. does any of the image formats have lzw 'build in')? Otherwise I would suggest to remove that reference, since a disk image is after all nothing more like a regular file and thus can of course be compressed by whatever compression programm one wants to use with it (rar, gzip, zip, bzip2, ace probally being the most common ones). -- Grumbel 00:12, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BIN format - I don't get it

If the BIN format stores everything from a cd, why does it need a separate cuesheet to describe its contents? I mean with real CDs you don't need to insert a separate disk that describes the contents of the CD to the optical drive.

It's because the .BIN/.CUE format is capable of storing multi-track data. The .CUE file is used to tell the burning program or virtual disk drive where exactly each track begins and ends. Have you ever opened up a cuesheet in notepad or a similar text editing program?. You'll understand why it's required for digital CD-images and not physical CD's, the key word there being physical. Combat Zombie 07:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bin/Cue

Why the Bin/Cue article redirects to here. It appears that the only true binary optical disk image is CDRWIN, which is not true! --189.6.61.8 (talk) 02:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

  • I also have to question to statement that Bin/Cue is the only true binary imaging tool. Referring to this edit 1, no where in the articles does it state the definition of a "true binary image", yet the most common disk formats were removed because they don't meet this definition. AFAIK, ISO meets the requirements of a "binary" image, as it is the most common form used for disk imaging and duplication. Could someone elaborate on how this is before I revert the edit? Rurik (talk) 18:19, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] USB keydrives

What about USB keydrives images ?. --Mac (talk) 10:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disk Image Reference Link Deletion

(I have copied this inquiry from my talk page in case others have an opinion on this.Elsendero (talk) 16:34, 15 April 2008 (UTC))

I am just wondering why you deleted a reference link for the "Disk Image" page. It was used to back up the second paragraph of Part C under Data Recovery Imaging heading. The link I posted was direct to a technical whitepaper. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SergeShirobokov (talk • contribs) 13:15, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

To me it appeared that the text made the distinction clearly enough, and that the linked .pdf amounted to advertising. However, it would be nice to hear the views of yourself and others on this. The entry in question is this one: diffElsendero (talk) 16:34, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok... but if you are going to remove the whitepaper then you should also remove the whole second paragraph of Part C under Data Recovery Imaging. That info doesn't belong there if it isn't backed up by anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.210.49.29 (talk) 17:36, 29 April 2008 (UTC)