R-Drive Image 2.0

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• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 46 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  107,919

• Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003

• Limitations:

  See description

• Date Added:

  January 08, 2005

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of R-Drive Image 2.0

R-Drive Image creates disk-image files for backup or duplication purposes. A disk-image file contains an 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. These files then can be stored in a variety of places, including removable media. R-Drive Image is capable of restoring those images on the original disks, on any other partition, or even on a hard drive's free space. The program creates a special bootable diskette for restoring a 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. Version 2.0 adds USB 2.0 support in the pseudo-graphic mode. You can now restart to the pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows to restore data to the system and other locked partitions. The 15-day trial version allows you to verify all R-Drive Image capabilities except creation and restoration of a disk image when R-Drive Image is launched from a bootable floppy disk created by the trial version.

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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 46 votes
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• 1 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: R-Drive Image 2.0

  "Back up your system before you touch it!"

  by Phantomito on February 28, 2005

  Pros: ZULCH!!!

  Cons: I tired Disc-Disc copy according to the given instructions. The program restarted the PC only to go into an unheard of ?GRAU?option and I had no idea what to do next. The program installed this as a primary boot option with Windows XP as a secondary option and I had to choose between the two each time I tried to reboot my PC. I must say that suppport was very quick to reply saying I should have continued at the GRAU option (but without saying how) and I could edit the SYSTEM.INI to get rid of the booting problem because uninstalling the program didn't help at all. Is this what is called user friendly?

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• 2 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: R-Drive Image 2.0

  "Didn't find it very useful -- plus it could be dangerous."

  by JayJay000 on June 27, 2005

  Pros: Nice GUI and its easy to make images. (I admit I didn't have the guts to restore any images, though. See cons, below.)

  Cons: The UNREGISTERED version was unable to create either boot floppies or boot CDs in my system. I was assured by Tech Support that the 15-day trial version could do both. They provided another software build that also failed to create boot discs. It would not possible to do a rescue if I lost Windows and didn't have any boot discs to launch the program. This program would be useless to me in a crunch.

  Also, when I used the vendor's UNINSTALL feature, it immediately hammered by BIOS (?!). Fortunately, the BIOS recovered and my computer rebooted, but I got a few more grey hairs in the process. I have no idea what in the world this program was doing in the BIOS. If you unistall R-Drive Image, use some third-party uninstall software to do it -- don't use Windows 'Remove Programs,' because this will automatically launch R-Drive Image's UNINSTALL program, which I consider a virus.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: R-Drive Image 2.0

  "It comes to backing up and restoring computer data"

  by Tipps on May 17, 2005

  Pros: For those of you who have lost data on your computer, you know that the rule of thumb is backup, backup, backup. I am focusing on programs that will cost you little, while saving your data, time and peace of mind! One I have used is R-Drive Image which creates disk-image files for backup or duplication purposes. I like R-Drive Image because it allows me to create backup images and store them on hard drives, CDs or USB pocket drives. I can create a disk-image file with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS. To restore certain files from a disk image, I connect the image as a virtual disk and copy those files directly from the disk image using Windows Explorer. I could restore all of my data without complications.

  Cons: Easy to use for those with some technical experience.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: R-Drive Image 2.0

  "Great product"

  by Crawfordb on March 18, 2005

  Pros: It does a great job. Performs the task with no problem. The program creates a special bootable diskette for restoring a system partition. I can restore my files from a disk image. Thanks a lot! It works fine.

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• 2 stars

  Version: R-Drive Image 2.0

  "trial version does not work"

  by download31870 on October 8, 2005

  Pros: good program if you buy.

  Cons: wasted 6 cds to do a backup image.trial version DOES NOT WORK.I tried to restore to a new hard drive and since it was a trail version it gave me a message that it CANNOT be done.

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