R Drive Image for Windows

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By R-tools Technology

Copy disk to disk or create disk-image files for backup or duplication purposes.

Try fully functional version of the software for 30 days absolutely free and verify all R-Drive Image capabilities. 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. 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. Full support for the GPT partitioning layout. R-Drive Image can create GPT disks, resize them, and change their partition layout during copy/restore operations. R-Drive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent losing your data after a fatal system failure. Now R-Drive Image trial bootable version launched from startup disks (either USB flash or CD/DVD or floppy disks set) is fully functional within 30 days as well as the Windows version. Our Technical Support Team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You may contact our technicians over email anytime or call them 1-888-9-RTTCOM (1-888-978-8266) ext. 2 during our business hours 9 AM till 6 PM ET Monday to Friday.

R Drive Image for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: May 8, 2017

Latest update: October 24, 2025

Version: 6.0-build-6012

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows Vista
Windows 2003
Windows 8.1
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows 8
Windows 2000

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 182,529

Downloads Last Week: 3

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User Reviews

3.4/5

51 User Votes

Good alternative to other brands..
Radzer0October 9, 2015
Pros
Works well, never had any issues like I have with other programs.
Cons
Its a subscription based registration. They say that it only blocks updates after 1 year to redownload the program from the registration email. Whenever an update comes out the EXE file name in the email changes on the server side so if anything happens your out of luck and they tell you to renew to redownload.
Summary
Its sad that such a good program charges so much more than the big brands with most of the market share yet wont even let you download an old version if you ask them when its all your registration covers.
Works flawlessly where others fail
bakklerMay 5, 2014
Pros
Does everything I need, and does it well where others have failed me (e.g., bare metal drive). With some previous versions of R-Drive Image, during restorations to smaller or larger partitions I had to figure out minor tweaks (e.g., resize a restored partition slightly to get it to boot), but in the new version everything works smoothly and seamlessly -- and fast, even with compression. And there are useful new features.
Cons
Customer service often doesn't seem to understand their own straightforward-but-powerful product, although FWIW they always respond fast. If you press the issue they will find out what the "real" answer is (rather than an uninformed "try un-ticking this box" kind of reply), but you have to understand enough to know why their initial response didn't make sense. Fortunately I rarely need support -- the program just WORKS.
Summary
Very dependable, has come to my rescue numerous times. And I like that version 5 continues to support restorations and file viewing/copying (via mounting an image as a virtual logical drive) from their old archive format (.arc) even though with version 5 they have moved to a new archive format (.rdr).<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on May 5, 2014<p/>A "PRO" I forgot: The 30-day free-trial is 100% functional, no unwelcome surprises/restrictions. I still had version 4.4, which doesn't work with Windows 7, which I just switched to a few months ago. But after trying the new version for a couple weeks, including an easy restoration of my system from a 500gb hdd to 1TB I decided not to stray from R-Drive. (But do follow instructions carefully to avoid Windows-induced complications like disk-signature collision.) This version also lets you skip over bad sectors if you are trying to image from a failed drive.
Drive to drive works seamlessly.
allenmarshApril 30, 2014
Pros
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Cons
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Summary
A very cost-efficient solution for server backups
GlkdfAugust 17, 2010
Pros
Its license allows the user to run it on servers for the same price as for workstations.
Cons
15 days for tests is not enough.
Summary
We use the software to backup our business-critical servers. To our best knowledge, this is the only full-featured backup/restore program which license allows its user to backup/restore servers for the price of a workstation. Yet it has all features to perform any complex backup/restore task necessary for an enterprise server: backup to a network drive, a scheduler, scripting, mail notifications, backup sets, etc. And it's stable and reliable in work.
Good for netbooks
jkhffJuly 23, 2010
Pros
Can create its startup disk and save image files on any removable media.
Cons
Found none so far.
Summary
I took advantage of their 15-day free test period to try it to backup/restore the system disk of my MSI Wind netbook. What I like most of all is that their startup version can start from almost anywhere, and you may save the image file on any removable device. I use a 32GB USB flash drive for the startup disk and image file of the system disk. No need to carry an external CD/DVD drive or hard drive anymore. Now I can restore my computer to its working condition anywhere and at any moment.
is not for free!!!
TheodamMay 7, 2010
Pros
it gives a free trial, whilsdt pretending te be4free
Cons
I feel conned, waisted my time
Summary
YUK
R-Drive Image 4.5
philbarterJuly 16, 2009
Pros
Backed up nice (3 hours 74 gigs)
Cons
I can not restore unless I buy, what is the point of trial if it will not work????
Summary
I fell mislead and I'll toss my 5 copied dvd's before I buy this product!
Rock-solid performance, easy to use, can boot from CD
OfficeTuxDecember 23, 2008
Pros
Generally a well constructed user interface. Initial menu is concise and easily understood. Can be run as an installed program under Windows or booted from an optionally created CD. The boot CD version supports mouse activity.
Cons
Some of the image creation options are not intuitively understood. Some context help for those options would be nice. Also, you must restore to a same sized partition as the original - which adds difficulty when using to migrate to a larger HD.
Summary
For those users that have experienced using the IBM mainframe product, DDR, this is the closest function I've found to that product. It seems rock-solid in execution (albeit sometimes appearing slower than I'd expect). I've been using it for close to a year and never had a software or logic failure. Before using this product, I attempted to use another "Ghost" program from a major supplier. It was neither as intuitive, nor as solid. I had failures that could have been catastrophic if I had depended upon it for accurate restoration.
Can't trust reviews
royholcombDecember 7, 2008
Pros
I would download and test it except the fake reviews scare me away from this software.
Cons
If you have to post fake reviews of your own software then you must not have any faith in real reviews. Scares me!
Summary
I don't have the option for high speed internet in the area that I live in so when I research software it is already somewhat time consuming but when I have to also research the reviewers that just adds to the time I have to spend and lowers my faith in the star rating system.
Does NOT Run Properly on Windows NT
mygeek911September 16, 2008
Pros
The product works well on Server 2003 for one of my clients.
Cons
Even though the requirements list Windows NT, this software will not run properly on it. Don't make the mistake I did by purchasing it then attempting to get a refund after the install. The company refuses to refund whatsoever.
Summary
I made the purchase right off since I knew the product and had used it before on a Small Business Server 2003 server. If I had known it does NOT run properly on Windows NT, even though it appears to from the description, I wouldn't have been so eager to make the purchase.