First post, by Kerr Avon
I was wondering how accurate a disc image (specifically a hard drive image} is? I was playing on my XBox 360, and as we all know, mechanical/electrical things all fail eventually, So I thought about backing up the console's hard drive for if (or when) it stops working. I am familiar with creating disc images (all the way back to Norton Ghost, in the DOS days) of course, but the XBox 360's hard drive uses a disc format that Windows can't natively read, and I think it has multiple partitions on the hard drive, so I was wondering if I did, using my Windows 10 PC, and a suitable image-making program, create a disc image of the entire hard drive (it's a 2 TB hard drive) and then got another 2 TB drive and put the disc image of the XBox 360's drive onto the new hard drive, then would that new hard drive be identical to the XBox 360, and the XBox 360 wouldn't notice any difference and work as it has been with the old hard drive?
I imagine that the PC and the image making program would see a raw, non-formatted drive (since they wouldn't specifically recognize the XBox 360's format and filing system), but would still be able to create a 1:1 image of the drive, or am I overlooking some hidden complications? The 360's hard drive is a SATA drive.
And come to thin of it, what are the standard verbs for (a) creating a disc image from a disc, and (b) applying the disc image to a new disc?