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- Creating Consistent Point-in-Time Backups
- Support for Various Disk Partitioning Schemes and File Systems
- Supported Virtual Disk and Disk Image Formats
- Disk Wiping Algorithms
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- List of Hardware Devices Supported in the Startup Mode
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Support for Various Disk Partitioning 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 ing schemes are supported for basic (regular) and dynamic MBR/GPT disks. R-Drive Image can change partition ing schemes (the number of partitions and their sizes) while restore the data.
• The other partition ing schemes 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 scheme with the above limitation, and a partition of another scheme 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 Mount |
Image creation from files |
|
FAT (16/32), NTFS |
Byte-by-byte and Useful Information Only |
Entire partition and Selected folders and files. |
Yes. |
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) |
Yes |
|
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) |
No (Yes, if third-party file system drivers are installed) |
|
APFS |
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) |
No (Yes, if third-party file system drivers are installed) |
|
Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux) XFS, and Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 |
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) |
No (Yes, if third-party file system drivers are installed) |
|
Unknown |
Byte-by-byte |
Entire partition |
No |
No |
No |
* For non-MBR/GPT disk partition schemes, partition resizing can be done within existing disk partitioning schemes.
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