R-Drive image is suitable for Windows drive images and backups

R-Drive Image is a powerful utility that creates disk image files for backup or copying purposes. Disk image files contain precise byte by byte copies of hard drives, partitions, or logical disks that can fly without stopping the Windows operating system, thus not interrupting your business. Then, these drive image files can be stored in various locations, including various removable media such as CD-R (W)/DVD, Iomega Zip, or Jazz discs.

With R-Drive Image, you can fully and quickly recover data loss caused by operating system crashes, hardware attacks, and hardware failures after heavy workloads.

R-Drive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent data loss in the event of a fatal system failure.

system requirements

1. Intel compatible platforms running Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2000, Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003 (including 64 bit versions).
2. Installing and running R-Drive images requires administrative privileges.

Difference in authorized versions:

1. R-Drive Image Standalone: A license that allows the licensee to operate independently throughout its entire lifecycleA personal computer or workstation(Not a server) provides services and can be transferred to another computer when the served computer is down or replaced. The license cannot be transferred back and forth between different computers, nor can it be reused on the computer where the license is transferred.
2. R-Drive Image Corporate: One license allows the licensee toWorkstation or serverProvide services and transfer to another computer when the service computer is disabled or replaced. The license cannot be transferred back and forth between different computers, nor can it be reused on the computer where the license is transferred.
3. R-Drive Image Technician： A technician license allows the licensee toAny number of workstations or servers providing servicesHowever, the licensee shall not copy the software and use multiple copies of the software. This software can be temporarily installed and/or run on a serviced computer, but it should be removed to serve another computer. If you have multiple technicians and wish to serve multiple computers simultaneously, you should consider a larger number of licenses.
4. R-Drive Image Commercial: This license grants IT service providers, system integrators, consultants, and computer assemblers the right to backup, restore, and deploy multiple machines based on their own or customer needs. A license allows the use of a copy of the software and provides unlimited service to various storage devices and systems.
5. R-Drive Image OEM kit: Please refer to the inquiry post for details:

1. Advanced Drive and File Imaging

R-Drive Image can dynamically create images without the need to restart Windows. Image files can be written to any storage location visible to the host system, including removable drives and network drives.

R-Drive image files may contain images of the entire hard drive, individual partitions, individual files, or even several unrelated disk objects. The data in such files may be compressed, password protected and encrypted, annotated, and split into multiple files. R-Drive images use volume snapshots to create consistent point in time disk images. You can check the image file for errors to ensure complete data integrity. This check can be automatically performed on existing images and after creating a new image.

In addition to the native image formats. rdr and Windows native VHD/VHDX virtual disks, enterprise, technical, commercial, and OEM toolkit licenses can also create image files in VMDK and VDI formats widely used in virtual machines.

1. Advanced Image Recovery

R-Drive Image restores images or individual files and folders from an image to the original drive, new drive, any other partition, and even dynamically frees up hard disk space. The size of the partition being restored can be adjusted, and existing partitions can be deleted and/or erased, moved, or resized. The entire hard disk image can be restored to another drive and resized/expanded as needed.

To restore the system and other locked partitions, you can boot the R-Drive image directly from Windows or use a separate bootable USB flash drive or CD/DVD to its boot version.

All R-Drive image licenses allow the restoration of native. rdr images, Windows native VHD/VHDX images, and DMG images. The company license and technician license also restore VMDK and VDI images, while the commercial license and OEM toolkit also support E01 and AFF images.

1. Disk to disk replication

R-Drive images can clone disks by copying data from the source disk to the target disk, converting one disk to another. Not only is it a hard drive, but it can also copy data from one or more partitions on one hard drive to another. The size of the partition being copied can be adjusted, and existing partitions can be deleted and/or erased, moved, or resized. This is an essential feature for migrating the entire system to another hard drive.

1. Partition Manager

The flexible partition manager performs the most common disk management operations: delete, erase, create partitions, and resize partitions. Before disposal or transmission, the entire hard drive can be securely erased and cleaned to avoid sensitive data leakage.

1. Plan tasks

Most disk backup tasks can be scheduled to run unattended for a certain period of time. For example, you can have R-Drive Image automatically backup your computer during off hours. In addition, creating backup sets that are consistent in data and save space can be a very complex task. The built-in scheduler has very general and flexible control over the start time of such tasks. Action reports can be sent via email and external programs can be launched after completing each task. Each task can be manually initiated except for the scheduled time.

1. No one participates in operations and scripts

Complex scripts can be created for frequently repeated unattended disk operations. These scripts can be executed from the command line or included in command files. Support creating new image files, append data to existing image files, recover data from images, inspect images, and connect/disconnect images as virtual logical disk images. Scripts can be created manually or from the R-Drive Image user interface.

1. Start version

The startup version of R-Drive Image performs all disk operations performed by the Windows version (excluding scheduled operations and scripts), but is primarily used to restore data to system disks and other locked disks, as well as to provide services for non Windows computers. It supports UEFI boot (including Mac computers), various hardware devices (see list), and data transfer over Microsoft networks (CIFS protocol). Two types of boot versions can be created: Linux based systems and Windows PE based systems. These versions are created directly from the Windows version and are suitable for small USB pen drives or CD/DVDs.

1. Supports multiple file systems

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

It can adjust the size of NTFS, FAT, HFS/HFS+partitions.

R-Drive Image can perform raw data image/copy/restore on disks that are not recognized by the file system.

1. Support the most common partitioning schemes

support

-Basic (MBR), GPT, BSD (UNIX), APM (Apple partition map) partition layout schemes;

-Dynamic volume, Windows storage space (Windows 2000-2022/8.1/10/11);

-Apple software RAID, CoreStorage, File Vault, and Fusion Drive;

-Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM/LVM2) and mdadm RAID;

Fully supports basic (MBR) and GPT partition layouts. R-Drive Image can create basic/GPT disks, resize them, and change their partition layout during copy/restore operations.

Support automatic resizing of dynamic disks.

More features

1. A simple wizard interface. Almost all actions can be specified with just a few clicks of the mouse, without the need for deep computer management skills.
2. Multi language user interface: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, as well as Japanese.
3. Support S.M.A.R.T. warning. If there is a potential risk of hardware failure with the hard drive, its S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) system will issue a special warning. R-Drive Image will display such warnings and include them in its confirmation email.
4. Single file backup. A single file can be saved in an image file or simply copied to a specified folder. Copy files in different ways (only copy changed files). If specified, files deleted at the source location will also be deleted at the target location. Batch processing mode: Advanced file filtering for easier searching and tagging of files. You can create file filters using a graphical user interface or manually write file filters.
5. Support cloud services. Image files can be saved to various cloud services and restored to the local system. Support Google Drive, Microsoft ® OneDrive ® And Dropbox ®。
6. Image replication. Multiple copies of the same image are saved during a single imaging process. Create a copy of the image file in the primary location, and then copy the file to another location. Multiple copies of a single image file greatly enhance the security of the image.
7. Rotation scheme (further development of backup sets): A file set (usually composed of full images and differential/incremental backups) is considered as a single unit. These units will be stored for a period of time and then replaced by updated units according to certain rules. The rotation scheme strikes a balance between data retention and restoration requirements and the amount of storage space used for backup storage. Support pre-defined and custom rotation schemes. Custom rotation schemes are available in company, technician, commercial, and OEM suite licenses.
8. Virtual drive mounting allows the created image files to be mounted as read-only virtual drives, and all files on such drives can be accessed by Windows and other applications.
9. Detailed and universal logs can be accessed directly from the user interface.
10. Large scale system deployment: R-Drive Image can be used to set up multiple identical computers. Once a computer is fully set up, its disk image can be created and deployed to all other computers to reduce time and cost.
11. System Recovery OEM (System Recovery Disk) is a part of the R-Drive Image OEM kit, used to run software from a bootable disk and restore a faulty computer system to factory (assembly program) settings. It can also be a CD, DVD, USB, ZIP drive, or any other removable storage device.