Support for Various Disk Partition Schemes and File Systems

R-Drive Image supports various non-MBR/GPT disk partition schemes: Dynamic disk, BSD Slice, Apple Partition Map with the following restrictions:

•Changes in disk partition layout are supported for basic (regular) and dynamic MBR/GPT disks. R-Drive Image can change partition layout (the number of partitions and their sizes) while restore the data.

•The other partition layouts may be backed up and then restored only on their original places or other partitions of the same size. For example, a backup of dynamic disk D: may be restored on disk D:, or on any other dynamic partition provided that its size matches exactly that of disk D:.

•A basic partition may be restored on another partition of another layout with the above limitation, and a partition of another layout may be restored as a basic one without limitations.

Partitions with various file systems are supported by R-Drive Image differently:

File system	Imaging/Copy	Restore	Partition Resizing*	Virtual Disk Connection
FAT (16/32), NTFS	Byte-by-byte and Useful Information Only	Entire partition and Selected folders and files.	Yes.	Yes
exFAT, ReFS	Byte-by-byte and Useful Information Only	Entire partition and Selected folders and files.	No	Yes (if the Windows version supports)
HFS/HFS+	Byte-by-byte and Useful Information Only	Entire partition and Selected folders and files	Yes	No (Yes, if third-party file system drivers are installed)
Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux)	Byte-by-byte and Useful Information Only	Entire partition and Selected folders and files.	No	No (Yes, if third-party file system drivers are installed)
Unknown	Byte-by-byte	Entire partition	No	No

* For non-MBR/GPT disk partition schemes, partition resizing can be done within existing disk partition layout.