The image of a bootable CD with the software R-Drive Image ver. 5.2 to
create images of the HDD or direct copying HDD. R-Drive Image is a
potent utility providing disk image files creation and data backup. A
disk image file contains exact, "byte for byte" copy of your hard drive,
partition or logical disk and can be created without having to reboot
the computer and with different levels of data compression. These drive
image files can be stored in a variety of places, including various
removable media such as CD-R (W) / DVD, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks.
R-Drive Image restores the images on the original disks, on any other
partitions or even on a hard drive's free space on the fly. To restore
system and other locked partitions R-Drive Image is switched to the
pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows or bootable version created by
the utility is launched from CD disc or diskettes.
Using R-Drive Image, you can completely and rapidly restore your system
after heavy data loss caused by an operating system crash, virus attack
or hardware failure. You can also use R-Drive Image for mass system
deployment when you need to setup many identical computers. In other
words, you can manually setup one system only, create an image of the
system, and then deploy it on all other computers, saving your time and
costs. If you need to restore only certain files from a disk image, you
can connect that image as a virtual disk and copy those files directly
from the disk image using Windows Explorer or any other file utility.
R-Drive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions
to prevent losing your data after a fatal system failure.
R-Drive Image features:
A simple wizard interface - no in-depth computer management skills are required.
On-the-fly actions: Image files are created on-the-fly, no need to
stop and restart Windows. All other disk writes are stored in a cache
until the image is created. Data from image files are restored
on-the-fly as well, except on a system partition. Data to the system
partition can be restored either by restarting R-Drive Image in its
pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows, or by using specially created
startup disks.
Image files compression. Image files can be compressed to save free storage space.
Removable media support. Image files can be stored on removable media.
Startup version. A startup version can be used to image / restore /
copy partitions locked by the OS. The computer can be re-started into
the startup version either directly from Windows, or from an external
USB device, a CD/DVD disk, or 6 floppies. The startup version can use
either a graphic user interface, or a pseudo-graphic mode, if the
graphic card isn't supported.
USB 2.0 and 3.0 support in the startup version. With hard drives
prices constantly going down, an external IDE-USB 2.0 or 3.0 HDD case
with an appropriate hard drive is an ideal (fast and reliable) solution
for storing backup files for system and other partitions that can be
restored only in the startup version. Do not use numerous unreliable CD
discs and slow CD/DVD recorders any more. Remember: with the incremental
backup, this hard drive is not to be too large.
Network support in the startup version. R-Drive Image startup
version supports disk image file creation and restoration over the
Microsoft network (CIFS protocol).
Extended List of the supported devices in the startup version. The
list of hardware supported by R-Drive Image startup versions has been
extended. VIEW THE LIST
An image file can be connected as a read-only virtual disk. Such
disk can be browsed through and files/folders can be found and copied.
Individual files and folders restoration. Individual files and
floders rather than entire disk can be restored either during the
restoring action or from a image file connected as a virtual disk.
Image files splitting. Drive images can be split into several files to fit a storage medium.
Image Protection. Disk image files can be password-protected and contain comments.
New partition creation. Data from a disk image can be restored on a
free (unpartitioned) space on any place on a hard drive. The size of the
restored partition can be changed.
Partition replacement. Data from a disk image can be restored on
other existing partitions. R-Drive Image deletes such partitions and
restores data on that free space.
Disk to Disk copy. An entire disk can be directly copied on another one.
Image files verification. You may check if your image files are good before you store them or restore data from them.
Scheduler. A time for disk image creation may be scheduled and the process can be run in unattended mode.
Script creation for frequent or unattended actions. Such scripts for
creating an image file and appending data to an existing image file are
created from the R-Drive Image interface the same way the actual action
is performed. Scripts are executed from a command line and such command
can be included to any command file.
Action Report. When disk image is successfully created or the action
fails the report can be automatically sent over e-mail or an external
application can be launched.
Support for the ReFS file system (Resilient File System), a new
local file system Microsoft has introduced in its Windows 2012 Server.
All disk actions are supported, except partition resizing.
Full support for the GPT partitioning layout. R-Drive Image can
create GPT disks, resize them, and change their partition layout during
copy/restore operations.
System requirements:
Any PC with IA-32 and (or) IA-64 architecture compatible. Want to boot from the internal or external CD-drive.
OS : Windows 2000/XP/ 2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7/Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 (including 64 bits editions)