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Drive Image and Backup for Windows

R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical 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 be stored in a variety of places, including various removable media such as CD-R(W)/DVD, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc.

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.

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 HIGHLIGHTS
Advanced Drive Imaging
Advanced Drive and File Imaging
Advanced Image Restoration
Advanced Image Restoration
Disk to Disk Copy
Disk to Disk Copy
Advanced Partition Manager
Partition Manager
Scheduler
Scheduler
Unattended Actions and Scripts
Unattended Actions and Scripts
Startup Version
Startup Version
Wide Range of Supported File systems
Wide Range of Supported File systems
Support of Most Common Partition Schemes
Support of Most Common Partition Schemes

R-Drive Image creates images on-the-fly, that is, without the need to restart Windows. Image files can be written to any storage places visible by the host system, including removable and network drives.

R-Drive Image files may contain images of entire hard drives, individual partitions, individual files, and even several unrelated disk objects. Data in such files may be compressed, password-protected and encrypted, commented, and split into several files. R-Drive Image uses volume snapshots to create consistent point-in-time disk images. Image files can be checked for errors to ensure full data integrity. This check can be performed for both already existing images and new images automatically after their creation.

In addition to its native image format .rdr and Windows-native VHD/VHDX virtual disks, Corporate, Technician, Commercial, and OEM kit licenses can create image files in the VMDK and VDI formats widely used in virtual machines.

R-Drive Image restores images or individual files and folders from images to original drives, new drives, any other partitions, or even to free hard drive space on the fly. Partitions, being restored can be resized, and existing partitions can be deleted and/or erased, moved, or resized. Entire hard drive images can be restored to another drive, shrinking/expanding as needed.

To restore system and other locked partitions, R-Drive Image can be booted into its startup version directly from Windows or by using a separate startup USB pen drive or CD/DVD.

All R-Drive Image licenses allow to restore native .rdr images, Windows-native VHD/VHDX images, and DMG images. The Corporate and Technician licenses also restore VMDK and VDI images, while the Commercial license and the OEM kit additionally support E01 and AFF images.

R-Drive Image can clone disks, that is, convert one disk into another by copying data from the source disk to the target one. Not only hard drives, it also can copy data from one or several partitions on one hard drive to another hard drive. Partitions, being copied can be resized, and existing partitions can be deleted and/or erased, moved, or resized. This is an indispensable feature for entire system migration to another hard drive.

Flexible Partition Manager performs most common disk management operations: to delete, wipe, create, and resize partitions. Entire hard drives can be securely wiped and cleaned before disposal or transferring to avoid sensitive data leaks.

Most disk backup tasks can be scheduled to run unattended at a certain amount of time. For example, you can have R-Drive Image automatically backup a computer during off hours. Moreover, such tasks can be very complex to create data consistent and space efficient backup sets. The built-in scheduler has a very versatile and flexible control over the time such task(s) are to be started. Action reports can be sent via e-mail and external programs can be launched upon completion of every task. In addition to scheduled time, every task can be started manually.

Complex scripts can be created for frequently repeated unattended disk actions. Those scripts can be executed from a command line or included into command files. Scripting is supported for creating a new image file, appending data to an existing one, restoring data from an image, checking an image, and connecting/disconnecting images as virtual logical disks. Scripts can be created manually or from the R-Drive Image user interface.

The startup version of R-Drive Image performs all disk actions the Windows version does except for scheduled actions and scripts, but primarily it is used to restore data to system disks and other locked disks, and to service non-Windows machines. It supports UEFI startup (including Mac computers), wide variety of hardware devices (view the list), and data transfer over Microsoft network (the CIFS protocol). Two types of startup versions can be created: Linux-based and WindowsPE-based systems. These versions be created directly from the Windows version and they fit into a small USB pen drive or a CD/DVD.

R-Drive Image supports FAT/exFAT, NTFS, ReFS / ReFS2+ (Resilient File System, Windows 2012/2016 Server), HFS/HFS+/APFS, Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris), and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux).

It can resize NTFS, FAT, HFS/HFS+ partitions.

R-Drive Image can perform raw data imaging/copying/restoring for disks with unrecognizable file systems.

Support for
- Basic(MBR), GPT, BSD(UNIX), APM(Apple partition map) partition layout schemes;
- Dynamic volumes, Windows Storage Spaces (Windows 2000-2022/8.1/10/11);
- Apple software RAIDs, CoreStorage, File Vault, and Fusion Drive;
- Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM/LVM2) and mdadm RAIDs;

Full support for the Basic(MBR) and GPT partitioning layouts. R-Drive Image can create Basic/GPT disks, resize them, and change their partition layout during copy/restore operations.

Support for automatic resizing for dynamic disks.

MORE FEATURES
  • Simple wizard interface. Almost all actions can be specified by several mouse clicks, no in-depth computer management skills are required.
  • Multi-language User Interface: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
  • Support for S.M.A.R.T. warnings. If a hard drive has a risk of a possible hardware failure, its S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) system throws special warnings. R-Drive Image displays such warnings and includes them into its confirmation e-mails.
  • Individual files backup. Individual files can be saved in image files or simply copied to a designated folder. Files are copied differentially (only changed files are copied). If specified, files deleted in the source location are also deleted in the destination location. Batch mode: Advanced file filtering to make it easier to find and mark files. File filters can be created using a graphical user interface or written manually.
  • Support for cloud services. Image files can be saved to various cloud services and restored back to the local system. Google Drive®, Microsoft OneDrive® and Dropbox® are supported.
  • Image replications. Multiple copies of the same image are saved during a single imaging process. One copy of the image file is created in the primary location, and then the file is replicated to other locations. Multiple copies of a single image file greatly improve the safety of the image.
  • Rotation Schemes (a further development of backup sets): Sets of files (usually consisting of a full image and differential / incremental backups) treated as single units. Those units are stored for some predefined time and then replaced by newer ones according to certain rules. Rotation schemes balance data retention and restoration needs with the amount of storage space used to store backups. Predefined and custom rotation schemes are supported. Custom rotation schemes are available in the Corporate, Technician, Commercial, and OEM kit licenses.
  • Virtual Drive Mounting allows to mount created image files as read-only virtual drives and all files on such drives are accessible by Windows and other applications.
  • Detailed and versatile logs accessible directly from the user interface.
  • Mass system deployment: R-Drive Image can be used to set up many identical computers. Once one computer is fully set up, its disk image can be created and then deployed to all other computers to reduce time and costs.
  • System Recovery OEM (system recovery disk) is a part of the R-Drive Image OEM kit to run the software from startup (bootable) disk(s) and restore a failed computer system to factory (assembler) setup. It can also be a CD, DVD, USB, ZIP drive or any other removable storage device.
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72 feedbacks
Rating: 4.6 / 5
I`ve used R-Drive Image for several months now, and it`s awesome. Dependable, easy; it just plain works! I also appreciate the straightforward, reasonable and clear pricing, which is why I initially chose R-Drive Image over others.
I am currently using R-Drive Image on a trial basis on Windows 11. Ironically enough, I had installed it and created an image prior to trying to see if a 2011 Acronis True Image disc I had would work. True Image wouldn`t completely install but then wouldn`t uninstall either. So I used the r-tools backup and restore image capabilities to recover from a backup and restore screw-up from another company. ;-)
However, what I wanted to suggest is that you create a Home version of your software that may have slightly ...
This help file needs to be updated. None of the names match with the current version of R-Drive Image Standalone 7.1 (Build 7110)

https://www.drive-image.com/DriveImage_Help/restorefromanimage.htm

For example, there is no ` Restore from an Image` on the GUI. Instead there is `Restore Image`. And there is no `Image File Selection` on the GUI. Instead there is `Select image file`. And so on... My suggestion is to open the app, go through a file restore, write down the steps exactly as done, and then ...
The clean user interface makes this product so easy to use. And the number of included features is impressive. Finally, you even provice a drive partitioning tool! This is the product I have been trying to find!
I played with the free trial little realising that my saved image would come to the rescue several months later. I immediately purchased some licences and restored my system with ease. I am most satisfied with R-Drive. I like its clean and simple interface - it makes things easy.
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