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Backup Options
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Ignore disk read errors (bad sectors)
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Windows Volume Snapshot Service
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BitLocker
BitLocker System Drive Encryption
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configure startup media troubleshooting options
Contact information and technical support
Context menu
Create a script from an existing task
Create a script from R-Drive Image
Create Partition Parameters
Creating consistent point-in-time bakups
Custom rotation schemes options
Maximum size of all image files
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Dialog boxes
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File systems
Format partition options
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Grandfather-Father-Son schemes options
Maximum size of all image files
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HDD Copy Method
Copy all partitions onto original places
Expand/Shrink partition to whole disk
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Image file format
Image Options
Volume size for multi-volume image
Image Options options
Compare file contents even for matching files
Remove files in the destination that have no matching files in the source
Shutdown computer when completed
Imaging Options
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Linux Logical Volume Manager Volumes
List of Hardware Devices Supported in the Startup Mode
Load Computer into Startup Mode
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Mail Notification Options
Media Options
Include R-Drive Image bootable version
Message
Messages
Choose drive(s) to umount them
Error: Another partitioner is active
Image selected is larger than destination
Insert a blank CD-R/RW disk...
Insert the next blank CD-R/RW disk...
Insert the next blank floppy disk...
ISO-image created successfully
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Startup disks created successfully
Virtual disk(s) mounted successfully
You have selected several partitions...
Mount
Drive letter for the selected partition
Mount an image as a virtual logical disk
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Notifications options
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OEM Client Media Options
Automatically reboot on successful restore
Client will search image on all disks
Perform restoration without confirmation
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Panels
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Choose destination of new image
Choose image to check integrity
Choose image to mount drive(s) from
Mail Notification/Aux Applications
Removable Media Device Selection
Removable Storage Device Selection
Select disk(s) to create image
Partition layouts
Partition Manager
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RAIDs, and Various Disk and Volume Managers
Restore Options
Drive letter for the selected partition
File system for the selected partitions
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Scheduled actions, command line operations, and scripting
Scheduler and unattended actions
Script commands and parameters
Scripting and command line operations
Simple rotation scheme options
Maximum size of all image files
Create an image using the startup disks
Restore data to a system or another locked disk
Support for Various non-MBR/GPT Partition Layouts
Supported CD and DVD recorders
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Task execution schedule options
Run missed task as soon as possible
Wake the computer to run this task
Tower-of-Hanoi schemes options
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Windiows explorer shortcut menu
Windows Software Spanned Volumes
Windows Storage Spaces
Wiping algorithms
Along with file formats used for purely disk backup and imaging purposes, there are file formats for virtual disks. Virtual disks are software components that emulates data storage devices in virtual machines. A the same time, virtual disks can be used for disk backup and imaging, too. That is why it’s expedient for disk backup and imaging software to support various file formats for virtual disks. This is especially important for system interoperability, when it’s necessary to use disk backup/image files on other machines where the disk backup and imaging software isn’t installed.
Currently R-Drive Image supports the following virtual disk and disk image formats:
RDR: A proprietary disk image format developed by R-Tools Technology, Inc (R-TT) . It is the main format in R-Drive Image , R-Studio , R-Linux , and R-Undelete . RDR files are interchangeable, that is, any R-TT program may load and process, within its capabilities, any rdr file created in another R-TT program.
VHD/VHDX: A virtual disk file format built into Windows. It’s a native virtual hard drive for Hyper-V, the Windows virtual machine. You may read more about these file formats in Wikipedia: VHD (file format) . R-Drive Image creates a special file with some metadata for the VHD file format, its extension is vhr. The VHDX file format contains this metadata within its main file.
VMDK: A virtual disk file format for the most virtual machines like VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop for Mac, etc. You may read more about these file format in our Glossary: What is a VMDK Virtual Disk .
VDI: A virtual disk file format for the VirtualBox virtual machine. R-Drive Image creates a special file with some metadata for the VDI file format, its extension is vdr. You may read more about these file format in Wikipedia: VDI .
The main features of these file formats are presented in the table below:
Features |
RDR |
VHD/VHDX |
VMDK |
VDI |
Several objects from different physical drives in one image |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
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Encryption |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Image Split |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Native mounting on Windows |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Mounting on Windows using R-Drive Image |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
There are tricks to bypass this restriction when only some disk objects are to be imaged. Those objects still must be on the same hard drive.
Method |
Unlike the image RDR format which may contain not only entire hard drives, but also separate disk objects (partitions and free spaces), all other formats can contain only images of entire hard drives. Therefore, R-Drive Image uses some specialResults |
Replicate source disk |
The image will contain the click. |
Create synthesized disk |
A new virtual hard drive will be created. It will contain only the selected disk objects. Windows 11 will be able to mount such images by a double click.entire hard drive with the selected objects. Objects that are not selected for imaging will be replaced with unallocated space. Unallocated spaces in such images are purely virtual objects and will not increase the size of the resulting file.
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Auto |
R-Drive Image will automatically select the method. If the image is to contain only one non-bootable object, Create synthesized disk will be selected. Otherwise, R-Drive Image will select Replicate source disk . |
The method can be selected on the Image options tab
Imaging results
Such images may have the following peculiarity: when an additional object is added to an existing image differentially or incrementally, the second image file will have a virtual unallocated space on the places of the objects already existing in the image. That may sometimes results in the fact that the total free space in the image exceeds the overall disk space.
Additional file formats that can be opened "read-only"
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Licenses |
dmg |
All |
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e01/(ewf) |
Commercial and OEM System Recovery Media |
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aff |
Commercial and OEM System Recovery Media |