
- #Install win32 disk imager how to#
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Win32 Disk Imager (Image Writer for Windows) is a disk image saving utility to copy disk images to external media.
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PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
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When it is recognized by Window take note of the drive letter and start the Win32DiskImager (see above for download link). Restoring a SD card backup is real simple simply plug-in your SD card – wait for a minute for it to be recognized by Windows. So your dog chewed up the SD card holding your favorite Raspberry Pi project? Fear not – being smart you made a backup (as described above) and I am here to help you restore it onto a SD card. Restore Raspberry Pi backup using Win32DiskImager
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Read on to figure out how to restore a Raspberry Pi SD card image. The process will take a few minutes and once it is done you have a backup of your Raspberry Pi project on your hard-drive.

After pressing read the screen will look as follows: It is important that you do not hit write since writing will overwrite your SD card. The last step is reading your SD card into the image file – this is done by pressing “Read”.

Once you are in the correct folder write the name of your backup in the file name text box and press “Open” (this is not very intuitive but no worries it will work). Press the folder button next to “Image file” and navigate to the folder where you would like to store the backup. Next you want to tell the program where to put your backup. Once started select the SD card drive letter in the device drop-down – it is important you select the right one since this is the drive that is being backed up. To backup your SD card insert it into your computer (note the drive letter) and start the Win32DiskImager program. Backup Raspberry Pi using Win32DiskImager Hit the download link and once it is downloaded extract the program to a folder on your computer. The program it is available here for free. For both backing up and restoring we can use a program called Win32DiskImager.

Likewise for restoring a Raspberry Pi project we are going to need a program that can read the image and write it back to the SD card. To backup (and restore) our SD card we need a program that can read SD cards and create a image based on the contents. On Linux you can use the command line built-in program called dd (more info on dd here).

Please note that this guide is written for Windows based computers, but the concepts are the same for linux computers.
