R-Drive Image versions

Creates backup files for entire hard disks
7.1
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 12, 2018
Review
Nov 15, 2016
Editorial review
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Oct 25, 2014
Review
Mar 18, 2014
Editorial review
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Oct 9, 2013
Review
Feb 7, 2013
Editorial review
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Mar 9, 2010
Review
Sep 23, 2009
Editorial review
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May 18, 2009
Jul 27, 2008
Editorial review
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Mar 1, 2008
Apr 20, 2007
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What's new

v6.2.6208 [Mar 12, 2018]
- Support for automatic partition resizing for dynamic disks.
- Support for Windows Storage Spaces (Windows 8/8.1/10/Threshold 2/Anniversary/all Creators update), Linux mdadm RAIDs and Logical Volume Manager volumes, and Apple CoreStorage/File Vault/Fusion Drive Volumes and RAIDs.
- UEFI boot for the startup version.
- Support for HFS partition resizing.
- Support for secure connection (SSL) in mailing out reports.
- When creating images, content of files like pagefiles.sys, hiberfil.sys, etc, is skipped when the Backup actual data only option is selected.
- Support for HiDPI (retina-like) screens for the startup version.
- Support for S.M.A.R.T. attributes for NVME devices.
- Support for Task Scheduler 2.0.

v6.1.6109 [Nov 15, 2016]
May contain unspecified improvements or bug fixes.

v6.0.6015 [Oct 25, 2014]
R-Drive Image 6.0.6002 Fri Nov 14, 2014
Improvements:
* A new Linux kernel 3.17.2 for the startup version.
* The startup version can be loaded from CD/DVD on a UEFI-booted machine.
Bugfixes.
* The startup version might not work under MS HyperV. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 6.0.6001 Thu Nov 06, 2014
Improvements:
* R-Drive Image prevents Windows from going to sleep when it performs disk actions.
Bugfixes:
- When there were incorrect zero-sized partitions on an MBR disk, R-Drive Image could copy that disk using only the raw copy method. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 6.0.6000 Thu Oct 23, 2014
New features:
Support for Windows Storage Spaces (Windows 8/8.1 and 10), Linux Logical Volume Manager volumes, and Apple RAIDs.
UEFI boot for the startup version.
Support for HiDPI (retina-like) screens for the startup version.

v5.3.5305 [Mar 18, 2014]
R-Drive Image 5.3.5300 Mar 18, 2014
+ Support for S.M.A.R.T. warnings. If a hard drive has a risk of a possible hardware failure, its S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) system throws special warnings. R-Drive Image displays such warnings and includes them into its confirmation e-mails.
+ Support for new GUI languages: Portuguese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Bugfixes:
- Sometimes it was impossible to write images to CD/DVD discs. Fixed.
- An incorrect year in the License Agreement for the GUI startup version. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugfixes.

v5.1.5105 [Feb 7, 2013]
--Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support.
--A faster and more robust disk processing engine. R-Drive Image became more stable and reliable. A lot of bugs are fixed.
--Separate files can be restored from images.
--Support for several languages in GUI and help.
--A startup version with GUI.
--An image format with a new file extension, .rdr. The old image formats are still supported.
--Disk signature collision resolution for disk to disk copy.
--Support for the ReFS file system (Resilient File System), a new local file system Microsoft has introduced in its Windows 2012 Server. All disk actions are supported, except partition resizing.

v4.6.4602 [Sep 23, 2009]
• Smart data imaging support for more file systems.
• Smart bad sector processing.
• Smart processing of corrupted image files.
• Backup sets.
• Windows Vista and 64 bit processors support.
• Acceleration of image creation and disc copy operations.
• Differential image creation.
• Incremental image creation mode.
• A bootable module can be written to a CD/DVD disc together with the image data.
• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support.
• Dynamic Disks and BSD slices support.
• A flexible control over CD/DVD writing.
• Improved file format.
• Writing to NTFS partitions.

v4.0.2.2 [Apr 20, 2007]
New features and kernel improvements

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