R-Drive Image Features

R-Drive Image is unique and powerful drive image software. It creates disk images: files that contain exact, byte-by-byte, copies of hard drives, partitions, or logical disks. Such images may be stored in any location: other hard disks or various removable media, such as CD-R(W) and DVD discs, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc. At any time, data from such images may be restored on their original disks or on any other partitions or even on drive's free space.

Using R-Drive Image, you can completely restore your system immediately after heavy data loss caused by an operating system crash, virus attack, or hardware failure. You can also use R-Drive Image for mass system deployment: if you need to setup many identical computers, you can setup manually only one system, than, using R-Drive Image, you can make an image of the system, and deploy it on all other computers, saving your time and cost.

You can copy a hard drive, partition, or logical disk directly to another one. Such copying is much faster than traditional file by file copying, as no time spent for file structure scanning.

If you need to restore only certain files from an image, you can connect that image as a read-only virtual disk and copy those files directly from the image using Windows Explorer or any other file utility.

·	A simple wizard interface – no in-depth computer management skills are required.

·	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

·	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 files can be password-protected and contain comments.

·	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 (either 2 floppy disks or a startup CD) 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.

·	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.