R-Drive Image

7.1.7112 Disk imaging app for Windows

Daniel Gardner

Review: Software that creates image backups of entire hard drives or selected partitions for easy restoration.

Shareware disk backup software download, reviewed by Daniel Gardner
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Drive Image and Disk Backup tool creates disk image files on the fly.

R-Drive Image, a comprehensive application that can whip up some snazzy disk image files for your hard drives and partitions. Whether you're backing up or duplicating files, this handy-dandy tool can come to the rescue.

Several wizard-style guides

The interface is very well organized. It's user-friendly and lets you select from a plethora of actions, like creating and restoring an image, copying a disk to another one, connecting an image as a virtual logical disk, creating a startup disk, verifying an image file, and creating scripts. So many options, so little time!

To get your image on, you gotta select a partition, saving directory, and file name (to R-Drive Image file - RDR format). You can also configure some settings, like verifying the file's integrity on task completion, adjusting the image compression ratio, backing up sector by sector or only the actual data, splitting the image automatically or to a fixed size, and setting up a password. Woah, mind blown!

A ton of options available

You can enable a snapshot service provided by Windows Volume Snapshot or R-TT Volume Snapshot (or both), establish the backup process priority and total CPU cores to use, assign backup and snapshot auxiliary applications (with support for notifications), and ignore disk read errors. It's like having a personal assistant to handle all your backup needs.

And let's not forget about the script option. You can create multiple scripts, use backup sets (set size quota, maximum sets, image files, and set age), and either create a new full image or append changes to the last image used in the backup set (differentially or incrementally). Who needs a backup dancer when you have R-Drive Image?

In closing

When it comes to finishing a backup job, R-Drive Image doesn't take a long time, unless you're dealing with a mammoth disk size. Plus, it uses low CPU and RAM during this time, so it doesn't hog system resources. Overall, R-Drive Image is a pretty nifty backup and recovery tool

Features of R-Drive Image

  • Backup: Quickly create disk and partition images.
  • Backup verification: Validate image integrity.
  • Command line tools: Automate tasks from scripts.
  • Data wiping: Securely erase data.
  • Easy to use: Intuitive interface.
  • Email notifications: Get alerts when tasks are completed.
  • Image compression: Save storage space.
  • Incremental backups: Update existing images.
  • Logging: Track all backups and restores.
  • Network support: Access images over a LAN.
  • Restore: Recover data from disk or partition images.
  • Scheduled backups: Automate the backup process.
  • System startup recovery: Vootable rescue media.
  • Virtual drives: Mount images as virtual disks.

Compatibility and License

This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from backup software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The R-Drive Image 7.1.7112 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.

What version of Windows can R-Drive Image run on?

R-Drive Image can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.


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  2. Disk Backup Software
R-Drive Image has been picked by our editors as very good.
R-Drive Image has been tested for viruses and malware.
We have tested R-Drive Image 7.1.7112 against malware with several different programs. We certify that this program is clean of viruses, malware and trojans.