Drive Image 4.5

RDrive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the exact, bytebybyte copy of a hard drive, partition orlogical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS and therefore without interrupting your business. These drive image files can then bestored in a variety of places, including various removable media such as CDR(W)/DVD, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc.
RDrive Image restores the images on the original disks, on any otherpartitions or even on a hard drive’s free space on the fly. To restore system and other locked partitions RDrive Image is switched to the pseudographic mode directly from Windows or bootableversion created by the utility is launched from CD disc or diskettes.
RDrive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent losing your data after a fatal systemfailure.
Using RDrive 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 useRDrive 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 thendeploy 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 filesdirectly from the disk image using Windows Explorer or any other file utility.
RDrive Image features:
* A simple wizard interface no indepth computer management skills are required.
*Onthefly actions: Image files are created onthefly, 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 arerestored onthefly as well, except on a system partition. Data to the system partition can be restored either by restarting RDrive Image in its pseudographic mode directly from Windows, or byusing 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 removablemedia.
* Network support. RDrive Image bootable CD version supports disk image file creation and restoration over Microsoft network (CIFS protocol).
* Pseudographic mode. Restart to thepseudographic mode directly from Windows to restore data to the system and other locked partitions. No need to use startup disks any more.
* Extended List of the supported devices. The listof hardware supported by RDrive Image bootable versions has been extended. VIEW THE LIST
* USB 2.0 devices support in the pseudographic mode. With hard drives prices constantly going down,an external IDEUSB 2.0 HDD case with an appropriate hard drive is an ideal (fast and reliable) solution for notebooks and sealed PCs to backup system and other partitions that can berestored only in the pseudographic mode. 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 toolarge.
* Bootable version. Special bootable disks (either 2 floppy disks or one CD) can be created to restore data to the system partition.
* Individual files and folders restoration. A diskimage can be connected as a readonly virtual drive and its content can be viewed and copied.
* Image files splitting. Drive images can be split into several files to fit a storage medium.
*Image Protection. Disk image files can be passwordprotected and contain comments.
* File system conversion. The file system of the restored disk can be converted to another one (FAT16 toFAT32 and vise versa.).
* 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 canbe changed.
* Partition replacement. Data from a disk image can be restored on other existing partitions. RDrive Image deletes such partitions and restores data on that free space.
* Disk toDisk 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 animage file and appending data to an existing image file are created from the RDrive Image interface the same way the actual action is performed. Scripts are executed from a command line andsuch 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 email or an externalapplication can be launched.
New RDrive Image features in version 4.x :
* Windows Vista and 64 bit processors support. New RDrive Image version supports all Windows Vista operating systemsand 64 bit processors.
* Acceleration of image creation and disc copy operations. Asynchronous I/O and distributed the zlib compression library were added among different processors. As aresult, users can see up to 200% speed gains in image creation and disc copy operations.
* Differential image creation. When the incremental/differential backup is being created, thedifferential image can be created by comparing the current data with the 128bit hash of the original data without reading the main image. That speeds up the process of creating theincremental/differential image in any case, but also no need to change the original discs when writing the image to CD/DVD discs.
* Incremental image creation mode. In the previous versionsthe differential mode was available only.
* A bootable module can be written to a CD/DVD disc together with the image data. Thus it is possible to create one CD/DVD disc to boot and torestore the system.
* Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support. In order to create a pointintime snapshot of a database, the servers like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL andOracle are notified before backup process begins. The technology allows synchronizing the servers’ database and creating the correct copies of quickchangeable data.
* Dynamic Disks and BSDslices support. Dynamic disks and BSD slices can be backup, restored and copied. The feature is supported in both Windows and bootable versions of RDrive image. You may create an image ofone disk or a volume of any type and then restore the image back to a dynamic or basic disk. However when such image is restored you may not change a size or other characteristics of thetarget disk. When you restore a dynamic disk image to a basic disk, the basic disk remains basic and is not converted to the dynamic disk.
* A flexible control over CD/DVD writing. Thatallows limiting the writing speed and cashing in the ISO file.
* Improved file format of the image created by the application.
* Writing to NTFS partitions. Now the RDrive Image bootableversion (based on the Linux kernel) supports writing to NTFS partitions as well as RDrive Image Windows version.
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