R-Drive Image 6.1 Build 6109 BootCD

R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes.

Disk image file contains exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS.

R-Drive Image is a software that creates disk image files. R-Drive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent losing your data after a fatal system failure.

These drive image files can then be stored in a variety of places, including various removable media such as CD-R(W) or DVD-R(W) , Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc.

R-Drive Image is capable of restoring those images on the original disks, on any other partitions or even on a hard drive's free space on the fly. R-Drive Image creates a special bootable diskette to restore system partition.

To restore only certain files from a disk image, you can connect the image as a virtual disk and copy those files directly from the disk image using Windows Explorer or any other file utility.

Here are some key features of "R-Drive Image":
- A simple wizard interface – no in-depth computer management skills are required.

- Commands in the shortcut menu to perform some disk actions, like restoring data from an image file and connecting an image as a virtual disk directly from Windows explorer.

- Image files are created on-the-fly, no need to stop and restart Windows. All other disk writes are stored in a cache until the image is created.

- Images can be created for storage devices with removable media

- Images can be burned on CD/DVD recorders directly from the program

- Image data can be compressed to save free space.

- Image files can be stored on removable media. Support for USB 2.0 devices in the startup mode.

- Images can be split into several files to fit the type of the storage medium.

- Image can be created incrementally and differentially.

- Image files can be password-protected and contain comments.

- Support for various non-MBR partition layouts. See Support for Various Non-MBR Partition Layouts for details.

- Data from an image are restored on-the-fly, except on a system partition. Data to the system partition can be restored either by restarting R-Drive Image in its startup mode directly from Windows, or by using specially created startup disks.

- Special startup disks (a startup CD/DVD disc, USB removable storage device, or 2 floppy disks) can be created to restore data to a system partition.

- The file system of the restored disk can be converted to another one (FAT16 to FAT32 and vise versa.).

- Data from an image can be restored on a free (unpartitioned) space on any place on a hard drive. The size of the restored partition can be changed

- Data from an image can be restored on other existing partitions. R-Drive Image deletes such partitions and restores data on that free space.

- An entire disk can be directly copied on another one.

- An image can be connected as a read-only virtual drive and its content can be viewed and copied.

- An image can be checked for its integrity.

- A built-in scheduler automatically starts disk actions at scheduled times/events.

- Scripts can be created for frequent or unattended actions. Scripts are executed from a command line and can be included in any command file.

- Support for backup sets. A backup set is a set of files (usually a file for a full image of an object and a number of its incremental/differential backups) which R-Drive Image treats as one unit. Backup sets are used to flexibly control the parameters of complex backup tasks such as a total size allocated for the image files, number of image files to keep, and time for which the data will be kept.

- R-Drive Image OEM System Recovery Media creation: special startup disk(s) that may be used to restore a computer system after a complete failure when it requires a complete fresh setup (system recovery disks).