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R-Drive Image


R-Drive Image is unique and powerful drive image software. It creates drive image files on-the-fly, that is, without stopping Windows. Such images may be stored anywhere including various removable media. It compresses image data with variable compression level to save free space . It also restores such images on the disks on-the-fly, except system partitions. R-Drive Image creates special startup disk (a startup CD/DVD disc, or USB removable storage device) to restore system partitions. It mounts images as virtual disks to copy only certain files from the images. It also directly copies an entire disk to another - no time spent for file structure scanning.

System integrators and computer assemblers can use R-Drive Image OEM kit to create system recovery disks to include them with their fully assembled computer systems.

Note: The current version has a limited support for dynamic disks or other non-MBR/GPT partitioning scheme. See Support for Various Disk Partition Schemes and File Systems for details.

The R-Drive Image Features topic tells more about R-Drive Image .

The System Requirements topic tells more about R-Drive Image system requirements.

The R-Drive Image Registration topic explains how to register your copy of R-Drive Image .

The License Transfer topic explains how to transfer the Standalone and Corporate licenses.

 

The Disk Actions chapter explains disk actions such as:

• Create an Image of a partition, logical disk, or entire hard drive

• Create an Image from Files

• Copy Files to a Folder

• Restore Data from an Image

• Copy Disk to Disk to make an exact copy of one disk on another

• Manage partition and logical disks

• Mount an Image as a Virtual Logical Disk (read-only)

• Unmount Virtual Logical Disks

• Check an Image File to check an existing image file

 

The RAIDs, and Various Disk and Volume Managers chapter explains how to perform disk actions with various compound volumes such as:

• Hardware RAIDs

• BitLocker Drive Encryption

• Windows Software RAIDs, Spanned, and Other Volumes

• Windows Storage Spaces

• Apple RAIDs

• Apple CoreStorage/File Vault/Fusion Drive Volumes

• Linux mdadm RAIDs

• Linux Logical Volume Manager Volumes

 

 

The Startup Version chapter explains how to perform disk actions using the R-Drive Image Startup Version such as:

• Create Startup Disk

• Restoring Data to a System or Other Locked Disk

• Create an Image Using the Startup Disks

• Disk to Disk Copy Using the Startup Disks

 

The Scheduled Actions, Command Line Operations, and Scripting chapter explains how to start disk actions automatically at scheduled times/events and create scripts that can be performed from a command line.

• Scheduler and Unattended Actions

• Scripting and Command Line Operations

• Rotation schemes (backup sets)

 

The Technical Information chapter gives technical information on

• Updates

• Cloud Services

• FTP/FTPS/SFTP Servers

• Network-Drives

• Image Replications

• Logging

• Creating consistent point-in-time backups

• Support for Various Disk Partition Schemes and File Systems

• Supported Virtual Disk and Disk Image Formats:

• Disk Wiping Algorithms

• Supported CD and DVD Recorders

• List of Hardware Devices Supported in the Startup Mode

 

The R-Drive Image OEM kit chapter explains how computer system integrators can create system recovery disks for their systems

• Create a Master Image

• Create Startup Media

 

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