How to copy BeagleBoard image to a windows PC

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How to copy BeagleBoard image to a windows PC so that I can send it to a coworker?

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Imgdiskwriter32 is an excellent tool to duplicate cards or generate images

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Hello Vinicius,

Thanks for responding to me. I have an emmc image on a SD card, I want to copy the image from the SD card to my PC.
When I put the SD card in the Pc, windows says it needs to format the drive, What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Nigel

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One option is to use something like DiskInternals:
https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/mount-linux-drive-on-windows/

I have never tried this myself though.

The other option is to use either VirtualBox or VMware Workstation Player to create a Debian or Ubuntu VM on your Windows system and use that to read the image from the eMMC.
Ex:
https://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Black_Extracting_eMMC_contents

I would suspect there is a Docker example of this somewhere.

Cheers,

Jon

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Hi

You can ignore the message of your windows, in win32 will appear your drive as source , the put a file name on the image file and select read

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Windows has no idea of how to access EXTn (Linux) file systems. As far
as Windows is concerned, inserting an SD card with EXT4 is the same as
inserting a never formatted SD card. Windows only reads FAT and NTFS cards.

  Win32DiskImager https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ has
the ability to read a raw SD card. One problem is that it tends to require
an identical card for writing the image because it copies the entire card
layout, and a similar card may have reserved more blocks, meaning the image
won't fit the card. (Balena Etcher is write-only, but may be better for
that operation)