R-Drive Image

R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the 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 and therefore without interrupting your business. These drive image files can then be stored in a variety of places, including various removable media such as CD-R(W)/DVD, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc.

R-Drive Image restores the images on the original disks, on any other partitions or even on a hard drive's free space on the fly. To restore system and other locked partitions R-Drive Image is switched to the pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows or bootable version created by the utility is launched from CD disc or diskettes.

Using R-Drive Image, you can completely and rapidly restore your system 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 when you need to setup many identical computers. In other words, you can manually setup one system only, create an image of the system, and then deploy it on all other computers, saving your time and costs. If you need to restore only certain files from a disk image, you can connect that image as a virtual disk and copy those files directly from the disk image using Windows Explorer or any other file utility.

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

R-Drive Image Features
• A simple wizard interface - no in-depth computer management skills are required.
• On-the-fly actions: 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. Data from image files are restored on-the-fly as well, except on a system partition. Data to the system partition can be restored either by restarting R-Drive Image in its pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows, or by using specially created startup disks.
• Image files compression. Image files can be compressed to save free storage space.
• Removable media support. Image files can be stored on removable media.
• Network support. R-Drive Image bootable CD version supports disk image file creation and restoration over Microsoft network (CIFS protocol).
• Pseudo-graphic mode. Restart to the pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows to restore data to the system and other locked partitions. No need to use startup disks any more.
• Extended List of the supported devices. The list of hardware supported by R-Drive Image bootable versions has been extended.
• USB 2.0 devices support in the pseudo-graphic mode. With hard drives prices constantly going down, an external IDE-USB 2.0 HDD case with an appropriate hard drive is an ideal (fast and reliable) solution for notebooks and sealed PCs to backup system and other partitions that can be restored only in the pseudo-graphic mode. Do not use numerous unreliable CD discs and slow CD/DVD recorders any more. Remember: with the incremental backup, this hard drive is not to be too large.
• Bootable version. Special bootable disks (either 2 floppy disks or one CD) can be created to restore data to the system partition.
• Individual files and folders restoration. A disk image can be connected as a read-only virtual drive and its content can be viewed and copied.
• Image files splitting. Drive images can be split into several files to fit a storage medium.
• Image Protection. Disk image files can be password-protected and contain comments.
• File system conversion. The file system of the restored disk can be converted to another one (FAT16 to FAT32 and vise versa.).
• New partition creation. Data from a disk 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.
• Partition replacement. Data from a disk image can be restored on other existing partitions. R-Drive Image deletes such partitions and restores data on that free space.
• Disk to Disk copy. An entire disk can be directly copied on another one.
• Image files verification. You may check if your image files are good before you store them or restore data from them.
• Scheduler. A time for disk image creation may be scheduled and the process can be run in unattended mode.
• Script creation for frequent or unattended actions. Such scripts for creating an image file and appending data to an existing image file are created from the R-Drive Image interface the same way the actual action is performed. Scripts are executed from a command line and such command can be included to any command file.
• Action Report. When disk image is successfully created or the action fails the report can be automatically sent over e-mail or an external application can be launched.

R-Drive Image Licensing

• R-Drive Image Corporate
license allows Licensee (home user or organization) to clone and restore one computer or SERVER for its entire lifetime. The license is per user and can be transferred to another Licensee's PC provided that Licensee may not install and/or run the software on more than a single PC at the same time.

• R-Drive Image Technician (local version)

R-Drive Image Technician license allows the Licensee (home user or organization) to serve as many computers as required, provided that the software is not installed or run simultaneously on more computers than there are purchased licenses. With one technician license, you may serve any number of workstations or servers within your home network or organization, but you may not duplicate the software and use more than one copy of the software. The software can be temporally installed and/or run on a served computer but should be removed if you need to serve another computer. If you have several technicians and would like to serve more than one computer at the same time, you should consider purchasing multiple licenses.

The local version supports saving the created images (backup files) to network drives as well as restoring the saved images from the network drives, but the software must be installed or run on the served computer. R-Drive Image Technician (local version) does not give you the capability of serving a remote computer.

• R-Drive Image Commercial System Deployment license for computer manufacturers and system integrators
The license grants system integrators, consultants, and computer assemblers the right to deploy multiple machines with standard system images for their customers. The license permits cloning different system images either on one PC or using one CD startup set an unlimited number of times.

• R-Drive Image OEM kit
includes three different components.

1. R-Drive Image System Recovery Media Creator (R-Drive Image SRMC)
license grants licensee (system integrators, consultants and computer assemblers etc.) a nonexclusive right to create and distribute OEM System Recovery media device provided that each one is distributed with a fully assembled computer system or hardware.

A "OEM System Recovery media device" means a CD/DVD/USB drive/ZIP drive/any removable media that contains a system image file and allows to restore system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a state the computer system or hardware was setup by licensee.

A "fully assembled computer system", later referred to as "computer" means a computer system consisting of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case.

The license allows creating and distributing unlimited number of System Recovery media devices of unlimited number of systems at no extra charge provided that R-Drive Image OEM unregistered version is preinstalled on each distributed computer and R-Drive Image software icon is placed on the end user desktop.

If for some reason the licensee can't preinstall R-Drive Image OEM version on the distributed computers an additional charge may apply depending on a number of distributed OEM System Recovery devices/licenses.

2. R-Drive Image System Recovery OEM
license allows the end user (home user or organization) to restore system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a state the computer system or hardware was setup by R-Drive Image SRMC licensee (computer assembler, system integrator etc.).

3. R-Drive Image OEM
preinstalled version comes with 30 day trial license. The OEM version is distributed with a fully assembled computer system only and can not be downloaded from R-TT directly. The trial period is counted from the day of the first completed procedure (image creation, image reading, etc.). R-Drive Image OEM version users are provided with 10% discount on R-Drive Image Corporate license.