R-Drive Image: version history
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:20 pm
R-Drive Image 7.2.7201 Sat Mar 16, 2024
Improvements
* Image replication process is greatly accelerated: the image file is now sent to all destinations simultaneously rather then to the main image destination and then from the main destination to other destinations. This is especially important when the main destination is on a cloud service.
* Working with cloud services now doesn't immediately stops with errors when short Internet glitches occur or services generate errors. R-Drive Image tries to re-establish the lost connection or re-tries to send data to the service.
* Display of the data uploading process to cloud services has been improved. It now shows that the data is being uploaded to the cloud service, the service being used, and how much data has been uploaded.
Bugfixes
- Operation progress remained on the application icon in the Task bar when the task was stopped. Fixed.
- The Execute On checkbox on the Options -> Notifications tab in a task lost its selection. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.2.7200 Tue Feb 27, 2024
New features
+ Support for cloud services. Image files can be saved to various cloud services and restored back to the local system. Google Drive(R), Microsoft OneDrive(R), and Dropbox(R) are supported.
+ Image replications. Multiple copies of the same image are saved during a single imaging process. One copy of the image file is created in the primary location, and then the file is replicated to other locations. Multiple copies of a single image file greatly improve the safety of the image.
+ Differential backup of files to a folder. R-Drive Image can copy individual files to a specified folder rather than creating an image file from those files. Files are copied differentially (only changed files are copied). When specified, files deleted in the source location are also deleted in the destination location.
Improvements
* When an old image file is replaced with a new one, the old differential/incremental files are also deleted.
* New icons for external USB disks.
* Logs now show which image was deleted in the rotation scheme: full, incremental or differential.
Changes
= R-Drive Image didn't delete differential/incremental images unless their full image was deleted, even if the age/total number of files limits were exceeded. Now it does.
Bugfixes
- Disks selected for backup could sometimes become unmarked while editing a task. Fixed.
- When editing a task, it was impossible to create two or more custom date intervals. Fixed.
- The progress bar was shown incorrectly when a sector-by-sector image was being restored. Fixed.
- The program update would generate an error message when the program's support had expired. Fixed. Now the program warns the user about an invalid key for the new version and offers to install the new version separately or in trial mode.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7113 Fri Jan 19, 2024
Bugfixes
- On rare occasions, the QR activation code may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7112 Mon Dec 18, 2023
Bugfixes
- It was impossible for a task to save an image on a UNC device protected by a login/password. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7111 Mon Dec 11, 2023
New features
+ For a multiple-machine license, the user can select a computer which license will be deactivated when transferring the license to another computer.
+ More advanced features to unlock BitLocker-encrypted disks have been added to R-Drive Image startup version.
Improvements
* New restore options (recovery from root path, copy attributes, etc) have been added.
* QR-code activation have been added to R-Drive Image startup version (GUI).
Bugfixes
- The R-Drive Image startup version couldn't open BitLocker-encrypted external disks where images may reside. Fixed.
- The update scheme for R-Drive Image nay have worked incorrectly in some cases. Fixed.
- When selecting the destination for the new image with a default file name, the File name field may have corrupted the destination and file name if the Next and Back buttons were clicked. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have not recognized internal drives in some cases. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image couldn't copy data to a BitLocker-encrypted disk, even when it was successfully unlocked by R-Drive Image. Fixed for the Windows and WinPE startup versions.
- The graphical representation on the Copy option window may have looked weired when copying data to a BitLocker-encrypted disk. Fixed.
- Files from password-protected (without encryption) images created from individual files could not be recovered. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7110 Fri Sep 22, 2023
Improvements
* The About window shows the first characters of the license key and hardware code. This makes it possible to recognize which license is used for this machine.
Bugfixes
- It was impossible to mount an image consisting of several differential/incremental image files if even a single differential image file was deleted. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7109 Thu Sep 14, 2023
New features
+ Support for BitLocker Drive Encryption, both for BitLocker ToGo and BitLocker System Drive Encryption.
Improvements
* Lin and WinPE have been added to default names of startup iso files.
* Startup Linux version: exFAT partitions can be created.
Bugfixes
- Sometimes an VDI image couldn't be connected. Fixed.
- An automatically suggested file system type of the partition may have been arbitrarily changed when the size of the partition was changed. Fixed.
Startup versions
Linux version
- It was impossible to create a second NTFS partition on a GPT disk. Fixed.
Windows PE version
- The program may have displayed incorrect disk layouts when a GPT disk was copied to an MBR disk. Fixed.
- A newly created exFAT partition may have displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
- It was impossible to change the disk Letter/Label for a newly created exFAT partition on an MBR disk. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7108 Sat Jun 10, 2023
Improvements
* Memory usage handling has been improved.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7107 Thu May 25, 2023
Bugfixes
- R-Drive Image may have displayed spanned volumes with visual artifacts when a restore/copy action was canceled. Fixed.
- Automatic activation didn't work correctly on Windows XP. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have detected an opened bitlocker partition incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image didn't check for availability of network drives while executing scheduled "Create image from files" tasks.
- Startup version (Linux): The program crashed when an image was selected on the Select image file panel and then the Next and Back buttons were clicked if the system had a small display resolution, a large number of files and folders, and the file was deep into the folder tree. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7106 Sat Apr 29, 2023
New features
+ Support for new virtual disk formats (read-only): dmg (all versions) and e01(ewf)/ aff (Commercial and OEM Kit versions).
Bugfixes
- It was unclear which image files were broken when several files in the folder were checked. Fixed.
- Incremental and differential images may have been created incorrectly if file encryption was used. Fixed.
- File systems and sizes weren't shown for removable media on the Select files for new image panel during the Create image from files action. Fixed.
- The Next button was inactive when a task was being edited with the Rotation options - No rotation - Differential options. Fixed.
- The Image check action may have worked incorrectly for several image files of various supported formats. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs in the Windows and WinPE versions have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7105 Wed Apr 05, 2023
Bugfixes
- R-Drive Image couldn't open its old image files (the arc extension). Fixed.
- The "Existing partition table is invalid" error message appeared for external USB disks if their enclosures returned altered disk sizes. Fixed.
- Information entered on the Backup options tab was not preserved between different image creation acts. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7104 Wed Mar 15, 2023
New features
+ The "Run missed task as soon as possible" option has been added to the "Task execution schedule" panel. When this option is selected, R-Drive Image will execute a task that was missed for whatever reason.
+ Support for VDI virtual disks has been added for the RDI Corporate, Technician, Commercial, and OEM SRM licenses.
Improvements
* Improvements in several localizations.
Bugfixes
- When the program encountered a broken image file when checking several files, it quitted further checking. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7103 Wed Mar 08, 2023
Bugfixes
R-Drive Image Windows version
- On the Check Image action, if the user selected an image with rotation and All images in rotation, and then came back and selected another image without rotation, the To check field would still show All images in rotation. Fixed. Now this field will show This image only.
R-Drive Image GUI Linux-based startup version
- The Refresh button may have not worked correctly. Fixed.
R-Drive Image TUI version
- The Image Options panel had unnecessary Password/Confirm password fields when creating differential/incremental images. Fixed.
R-Drive Image GUI WIndowsPE startup version
- This startup version started in the demo mode didn't show its version and build numbers. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7102 Tue Mar 07, 2023
New features:
+ The .rdr image files can be encrypted using strong AES-XTS encryption.
+ Support for the VHD/VHDX virtual disks has been added for all program versions.
+ System and other locked NTFS disks can be resized without system restart.
+ Any supported disk partition scheme can be converted to the MBR/GPT layout.
+ All images in a specified image set (rotation) or a folder can be checked in one action.
+ A startup version of R-Drive Image can now be based on WindowsPE platform.
Bugfixes:
- It was impossible to move a newly created or copied partition to the leftmost position on the disk if the first partition had been removed. Fixed.
- It was impossible to restore Windows dynamic disks using the Raw disk copy (copy as binary) option. R-Drive Image showed the Unable to prepare clear partition layout operation message. Fixed.
- The pop-up window may have shown multiple names for a Apple CoreStorage container when the cursor hovered over the container. Fixed.
- Some fixes for the French localizations.
- Several cosmetic bugfixes.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7010 Sat Jan 14, 2023
New features
+ A new Linux kernel 6.1.4 in the startup version.
Bugfixes
- A corrupted file system may have been created when a partition was moved to the right when the new partition overlapped the old one. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7009 Tue Dec 20, 2022
Bugfixes:
- R-Drive Image may have incorrectly process the system partition when the Expand/Shrink partition to whole disk option is selected. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have incorrectly deleted incremental/differential files when their backup quota exceeded. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7008 Sat Oct 08, 2022
Bugfixes:
- R-Drive Image may haven't worked in Windows 2000/XP. Fixed.
- File time stamps weren't shown in local time formats. Fixed.
- Task status could not be changed when the task couldn't be renamed due to incorrect new task names. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7007 Tue Oct 04, 2022
Bugfixes:
+ It was impossible to create a mail message with program logs if the mail program was already running. Fixed.
+ It was impossible to save any file to a folder which was a symlink to another folder. Fixed.
+ It was impossible to create an image of the system partition. Fixed.
+ Sometimes, the program may have frozen during partition creation on an empty hard drive. Fixed.
+ The startup version: sometimes the program didn't show the content of a selected image on the Select the destination for the new image panel. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7006 Sat Sep 10, 2022
New features
+ The startup version is based now on the Linux kernel with support for the CPU x2-apic feature.
Improvements:
* Passwords in scripts are now encrypted.
Bugfixes:
- When a user clicked a disk or folder on the Select the destination for the new image panel, the program moved to the next stage instead of opening the object. Fixed.
- The .rdr image files remained visible even when the default extension was changed to .vmdk. Fixed.
- File sorting didn't work when the user clicked column headers in Detail View. Fixed.
- File's time modification stamps were shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- The program may have frozen when a large .zip file was in a disk root. Fixed.
- The built-in Partition manager could not initialize a disk if it contained invalid traces of a previous partition table. Fixed.
- The built-in Partition manager could not create a partition on an empty flash drive. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed in some cases during image creation. Fixed.
- The program scheduler tried to save task options that weren't supported by system's scheduler. For example, Repeat task every and Delay task for up to are not supported in Windows 2000. Fixed.
- Partitions on the target disk may have appeared twice after disk copy/restore operations. Fixed.
- The startup version showed a file system even when it had been already wiped. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7005 Thu Jun 09, 2022
Improvements:
* Color contrast is improved in the TUI Startup version.
Bugfixes:
- Files in rotation schemes were not correctly deleted if the Image split size parameter was used. Fixed.
- Sometimes it was impossible to restore data from images. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugfixes.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7004 Thu May 19, 2022
Improvements:
* R-Drive Image installs now its startup loader on the Windows system partition when there's not enough space on the active partition.
* When a path to a folder is entered on the image creation/restore/check panels, R-Drive Image opens that folder and shows its content.
Bugfixes
- R-Drive Image may have thrown an incorrect message about an UEFI system when it was impossible to install its startup loader on a pure BIOS system. Fixed.
- All files on the last disk (rather than only selected ones) were included into the image when files on multiple disks were selected for image creation. Fixed.
- When the Connect as Virtual Drive file shortcut command was executed on an image containing only files, R-Drive Image tried to mount this image, which was impossible. Fixed. The program now throws a warning message that This image contains no partitions that can be connected to the system.
- Several cosmetic and localization bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7003 Sat Apr 09, 2022
Improvements:
* Default task names become connected now with their action types.
* R-Drive Image changes the paths to network drives to the UNC format in tasks if the tasks are created for other users.
* The Disk signature collision panel immediately appears when copying a hard drive with a system disk to another hard drive.
Bugfixes:
- A source disk remained marked when it was dragged from the sources to targets, and the Copy options window was closed. Fixed.
- Count/size data may have disappeared when moving from a selected folder when creating an image from files. Fixed.
- A script that created differential or incremental images running the GUI or command string may have resulted in different results. Fixed.
- When copying a hard drive with a system disk to another drive a warning Unable to mount the volume may have appeared. Fixed.
- An incorrect progress text was shown while executing a script from a command line. Fixed.
- It was impossible to cancel a restore or copy operation from a shortcut menu. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7002 Thu Feb 03, 2022
Improvements:
* Display of free space for an image has been improved.
* Command names in the Create task menu have been made clearer.
Bugfixes:
- No files appeared selected when a newly created task to create images from individual files was opened to edit. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have frozen when a partition, which was set to copy to empty space, was resized. Fixed.
- If two partitions were created and a disk letter was selected for the second partition, it was possible to selected the same disk letter for the first partition. Fixed.
- The last slash was missing in the suggested path on the Not enough free space message, which may have resulted in an invalid path. Fixed.
- It was impossible to move an object selected to copy/restore to the place of a deleted partition. Fixed.
- There was a residual outlining on a double-clicked source object. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have frozen when Wipe HDD or Clear HDD commands were executed in the Partition Manager or the Restore Image action. Fixed.
- It was impossible to perform operations on individual partitions during setting a Copy whole HDD action. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7001 Tue Jan 18, 2022
Cosmetic improvements and minor bugfixes.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7000 Wed Jan 12, 2022
NOTE: Starting from 7.0 version, R-Drive Image Standalone license DOES NOT support operations for WINDOWS SERVER 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003, but the software compatibility and all features can still be tested on the servers within 30-day trial period with no limitations.
New features:
+ A new, completely redesigned wizard interface with improved graphical controls, drag and drop object manipulations, and visual source and target binding.
+ A partition manager that allows the user to delete, wipe, create, and re-size partitions and logical disks.
+ Image creation from individual files, not only from disk objects.
+ Disk wiping. The entire disk can be wiped using simple or advanced wiping algorithms. This feature is very useful for disk cleaning before disposal.
+ Advanced and versatile logs accessible directly from the user interface.
+ Advanced file filtering to make search for files and marking them easier. File filters can be created directly on a R-Drive Image panel or set/edited manually (Batch mode).
+ Support for rotation schemes (a further development of backup sets). A rotation scheme is a set of files (usually a file for a full image of an object and a number of its incremental/differential backups) which R-Drive Image treats as one unit. Rotation schemes are used to flexibly control the parameters of complex backup tasks. R-Drive Image supports predefined and custom rotation schemes. Custom rotation schemes are available in the Corporate, Technician, and Commercial licenses.
+ Support for the VMDK file type, a popular virtual machine disk format (only in Corporate, Technician, and Commercial Licenses).
Improvements:
* Support for APFS sealed volumes in macOS BigSur has been added.
* Support for ReFS 3.7 (Windows server 2022) has been added.
* The OpenSSL used in the built-in mailer has been updated to the 1.0.2 version.
Bugfixes:
- exFAT partitions may have been copied incorrectly. Fixed.
- FAT32 Bitlockers to go couldn't be detected. Fixed.
- S.M.A.R.T. attributes for Intel NVME devices were determined incorrectly. Fixed.
- The task finish time parameter was omitted in email reports. Fixed.
- The size of virtual free space that occupied the entire uninitialized drive may have been determined incorrectly. Fixed.
- If GPT partition table copies had the same offset/size but different GPT Guids, the partitions were duplicated two times. Fixed.
- The resulting partitions and volumes weren't immediately combined into equals when ReFS partitions were copied/restored. Fixed.
- An unnecessary direct volume may have appeared for a single formatted partition which end coincided with the drive's end. Fixed.
- The mount driver may have loaded incorrectly under Windows XP/2003. Fixed.
Improvements
* Image replication process is greatly accelerated: the image file is now sent to all destinations simultaneously rather then to the main image destination and then from the main destination to other destinations. This is especially important when the main destination is on a cloud service.
* Working with cloud services now doesn't immediately stops with errors when short Internet glitches occur or services generate errors. R-Drive Image tries to re-establish the lost connection or re-tries to send data to the service.
* Display of the data uploading process to cloud services has been improved. It now shows that the data is being uploaded to the cloud service, the service being used, and how much data has been uploaded.
Bugfixes
- Operation progress remained on the application icon in the Task bar when the task was stopped. Fixed.
- The Execute On checkbox on the Options -> Notifications tab in a task lost its selection. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.2.7200 Tue Feb 27, 2024
New features
+ Support for cloud services. Image files can be saved to various cloud services and restored back to the local system. Google Drive(R), Microsoft OneDrive(R), and Dropbox(R) are supported.
+ Image replications. Multiple copies of the same image are saved during a single imaging process. One copy of the image file is created in the primary location, and then the file is replicated to other locations. Multiple copies of a single image file greatly improve the safety of the image.
+ Differential backup of files to a folder. R-Drive Image can copy individual files to a specified folder rather than creating an image file from those files. Files are copied differentially (only changed files are copied). When specified, files deleted in the source location are also deleted in the destination location.
Improvements
* When an old image file is replaced with a new one, the old differential/incremental files are also deleted.
* New icons for external USB disks.
* Logs now show which image was deleted in the rotation scheme: full, incremental or differential.
Changes
= R-Drive Image didn't delete differential/incremental images unless their full image was deleted, even if the age/total number of files limits were exceeded. Now it does.
Bugfixes
- Disks selected for backup could sometimes become unmarked while editing a task. Fixed.
- When editing a task, it was impossible to create two or more custom date intervals. Fixed.
- The progress bar was shown incorrectly when a sector-by-sector image was being restored. Fixed.
- The program update would generate an error message when the program's support had expired. Fixed. Now the program warns the user about an invalid key for the new version and offers to install the new version separately or in trial mode.
- Several cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7113 Fri Jan 19, 2024
Bugfixes
- On rare occasions, the QR activation code may have worked incorrectly. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7112 Mon Dec 18, 2023
Bugfixes
- It was impossible for a task to save an image on a UNC device protected by a login/password. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7111 Mon Dec 11, 2023
New features
+ For a multiple-machine license, the user can select a computer which license will be deactivated when transferring the license to another computer.
+ More advanced features to unlock BitLocker-encrypted disks have been added to R-Drive Image startup version.
Improvements
* New restore options (recovery from root path, copy attributes, etc) have been added.
* QR-code activation have been added to R-Drive Image startup version (GUI).
Bugfixes
- The R-Drive Image startup version couldn't open BitLocker-encrypted external disks where images may reside. Fixed.
- The update scheme for R-Drive Image nay have worked incorrectly in some cases. Fixed.
- When selecting the destination for the new image with a default file name, the File name field may have corrupted the destination and file name if the Next and Back buttons were clicked. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have not recognized internal drives in some cases. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image couldn't copy data to a BitLocker-encrypted disk, even when it was successfully unlocked by R-Drive Image. Fixed for the Windows and WinPE startup versions.
- The graphical representation on the Copy option window may have looked weired when copying data to a BitLocker-encrypted disk. Fixed.
- Files from password-protected (without encryption) images created from individual files could not be recovered. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7110 Fri Sep 22, 2023
Improvements
* The About window shows the first characters of the license key and hardware code. This makes it possible to recognize which license is used for this machine.
Bugfixes
- It was impossible to mount an image consisting of several differential/incremental image files if even a single differential image file was deleted. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7109 Thu Sep 14, 2023
New features
+ Support for BitLocker Drive Encryption, both for BitLocker ToGo and BitLocker System Drive Encryption.
Improvements
* Lin and WinPE have been added to default names of startup iso files.
* Startup Linux version: exFAT partitions can be created.
Bugfixes
- Sometimes an VDI image couldn't be connected. Fixed.
- An automatically suggested file system type of the partition may have been arbitrarily changed when the size of the partition was changed. Fixed.
Startup versions
Linux version
- It was impossible to create a second NTFS partition on a GPT disk. Fixed.
Windows PE version
- The program may have displayed incorrect disk layouts when a GPT disk was copied to an MBR disk. Fixed.
- A newly created exFAT partition may have displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
- It was impossible to change the disk Letter/Label for a newly created exFAT partition on an MBR disk. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7108 Sat Jun 10, 2023
Improvements
* Memory usage handling has been improved.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7107 Thu May 25, 2023
Bugfixes
- R-Drive Image may have displayed spanned volumes with visual artifacts when a restore/copy action was canceled. Fixed.
- Automatic activation didn't work correctly on Windows XP. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have detected an opened bitlocker partition incorrectly. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image didn't check for availability of network drives while executing scheduled "Create image from files" tasks.
- Startup version (Linux): The program crashed when an image was selected on the Select image file panel and then the Next and Back buttons were clicked if the system had a small display resolution, a large number of files and folders, and the file was deep into the folder tree. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7106 Sat Apr 29, 2023
New features
+ Support for new virtual disk formats (read-only): dmg (all versions) and e01(ewf)/ aff (Commercial and OEM Kit versions).
Bugfixes
- It was unclear which image files were broken when several files in the folder were checked. Fixed.
- Incremental and differential images may have been created incorrectly if file encryption was used. Fixed.
- File systems and sizes weren't shown for removable media on the Select files for new image panel during the Create image from files action. Fixed.
- The Next button was inactive when a task was being edited with the Rotation options - No rotation - Differential options. Fixed.
- The Image check action may have worked incorrectly for several image files of various supported formats. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugs in the Windows and WinPE versions have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7105 Wed Apr 05, 2023
Bugfixes
- R-Drive Image couldn't open its old image files (the arc extension). Fixed.
- The "Existing partition table is invalid" error message appeared for external USB disks if their enclosures returned altered disk sizes. Fixed.
- Information entered on the Backup options tab was not preserved between different image creation acts. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7104 Wed Mar 15, 2023
New features
+ The "Run missed task as soon as possible" option has been added to the "Task execution schedule" panel. When this option is selected, R-Drive Image will execute a task that was missed for whatever reason.
+ Support for VDI virtual disks has been added for the RDI Corporate, Technician, Commercial, and OEM SRM licenses.
Improvements
* Improvements in several localizations.
Bugfixes
- When the program encountered a broken image file when checking several files, it quitted further checking. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7103 Wed Mar 08, 2023
Bugfixes
R-Drive Image Windows version
- On the Check Image action, if the user selected an image with rotation and All images in rotation, and then came back and selected another image without rotation, the To check field would still show All images in rotation. Fixed. Now this field will show This image only.
R-Drive Image GUI Linux-based startup version
- The Refresh button may have not worked correctly. Fixed.
R-Drive Image TUI version
- The Image Options panel had unnecessary Password/Confirm password fields when creating differential/incremental images. Fixed.
R-Drive Image GUI WIndowsPE startup version
- This startup version started in the demo mode didn't show its version and build numbers. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.1.7102 Tue Mar 07, 2023
New features:
+ The .rdr image files can be encrypted using strong AES-XTS encryption.
+ Support for the VHD/VHDX virtual disks has been added for all program versions.
+ System and other locked NTFS disks can be resized without system restart.
+ Any supported disk partition scheme can be converted to the MBR/GPT layout.
+ All images in a specified image set (rotation) or a folder can be checked in one action.
+ A startup version of R-Drive Image can now be based on WindowsPE platform.
Bugfixes:
- It was impossible to move a newly created or copied partition to the leftmost position on the disk if the first partition had been removed. Fixed.
- It was impossible to restore Windows dynamic disks using the Raw disk copy (copy as binary) option. R-Drive Image showed the Unable to prepare clear partition layout operation message. Fixed.
- The pop-up window may have shown multiple names for a Apple CoreStorage container when the cursor hovered over the container. Fixed.
- Some fixes for the French localizations.
- Several cosmetic bugfixes.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7010 Sat Jan 14, 2023
New features
+ A new Linux kernel 6.1.4 in the startup version.
Bugfixes
- A corrupted file system may have been created when a partition was moved to the right when the new partition overlapped the old one. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7009 Tue Dec 20, 2022
Bugfixes:
- R-Drive Image may have incorrectly process the system partition when the Expand/Shrink partition to whole disk option is selected. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have incorrectly deleted incremental/differential files when their backup quota exceeded. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7008 Sat Oct 08, 2022
Bugfixes:
- R-Drive Image may haven't worked in Windows 2000/XP. Fixed.
- File time stamps weren't shown in local time formats. Fixed.
- Task status could not be changed when the task couldn't be renamed due to incorrect new task names. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7007 Tue Oct 04, 2022
Bugfixes:
+ It was impossible to create a mail message with program logs if the mail program was already running. Fixed.
+ It was impossible to save any file to a folder which was a symlink to another folder. Fixed.
+ It was impossible to create an image of the system partition. Fixed.
+ Sometimes, the program may have frozen during partition creation on an empty hard drive. Fixed.
+ The startup version: sometimes the program didn't show the content of a selected image on the Select the destination for the new image panel. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7006 Sat Sep 10, 2022
New features
+ The startup version is based now on the Linux kernel with support for the CPU x2-apic feature.
Improvements:
* Passwords in scripts are now encrypted.
Bugfixes:
- When a user clicked a disk or folder on the Select the destination for the new image panel, the program moved to the next stage instead of opening the object. Fixed.
- The .rdr image files remained visible even when the default extension was changed to .vmdk. Fixed.
- File sorting didn't work when the user clicked column headers in Detail View. Fixed.
- File's time modification stamps were shown incorrectly. Fixed.
- The program may have frozen when a large .zip file was in a disk root. Fixed.
- The built-in Partition manager could not initialize a disk if it contained invalid traces of a previous partition table. Fixed.
- The built-in Partition manager could not create a partition on an empty flash drive. Fixed.
- The program may have crashed in some cases during image creation. Fixed.
- The program scheduler tried to save task options that weren't supported by system's scheduler. For example, Repeat task every and Delay task for up to are not supported in Windows 2000. Fixed.
- Partitions on the target disk may have appeared twice after disk copy/restore operations. Fixed.
- The startup version showed a file system even when it had been already wiped. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7005 Thu Jun 09, 2022
Improvements:
* Color contrast is improved in the TUI Startup version.
Bugfixes:
- Files in rotation schemes were not correctly deleted if the Image split size parameter was used. Fixed.
- Sometimes it was impossible to restore data from images. Fixed.
- Several cosmetic bugfixes.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7004 Thu May 19, 2022
Improvements:
* R-Drive Image installs now its startup loader on the Windows system partition when there's not enough space on the active partition.
* When a path to a folder is entered on the image creation/restore/check panels, R-Drive Image opens that folder and shows its content.
Bugfixes
- R-Drive Image may have thrown an incorrect message about an UEFI system when it was impossible to install its startup loader on a pure BIOS system. Fixed.
- All files on the last disk (rather than only selected ones) were included into the image when files on multiple disks were selected for image creation. Fixed.
- When the Connect as Virtual Drive file shortcut command was executed on an image containing only files, R-Drive Image tried to mount this image, which was impossible. Fixed. The program now throws a warning message that This image contains no partitions that can be connected to the system.
- Several cosmetic and localization bugs have been fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7003 Sat Apr 09, 2022
Improvements:
* Default task names become connected now with their action types.
* R-Drive Image changes the paths to network drives to the UNC format in tasks if the tasks are created for other users.
* The Disk signature collision panel immediately appears when copying a hard drive with a system disk to another hard drive.
Bugfixes:
- A source disk remained marked when it was dragged from the sources to targets, and the Copy options window was closed. Fixed.
- Count/size data may have disappeared when moving from a selected folder when creating an image from files. Fixed.
- A script that created differential or incremental images running the GUI or command string may have resulted in different results. Fixed.
- When copying a hard drive with a system disk to another drive a warning Unable to mount the volume may have appeared. Fixed.
- An incorrect progress text was shown while executing a script from a command line. Fixed.
- It was impossible to cancel a restore or copy operation from a shortcut menu. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7002 Thu Feb 03, 2022
Improvements:
* Display of free space for an image has been improved.
* Command names in the Create task menu have been made clearer.
Bugfixes:
- No files appeared selected when a newly created task to create images from individual files was opened to edit. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have frozen when a partition, which was set to copy to empty space, was resized. Fixed.
- If two partitions were created and a disk letter was selected for the second partition, it was possible to selected the same disk letter for the first partition. Fixed.
- The last slash was missing in the suggested path on the Not enough free space message, which may have resulted in an invalid path. Fixed.
- It was impossible to move an object selected to copy/restore to the place of a deleted partition. Fixed.
- There was a residual outlining on a double-clicked source object. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image may have frozen when Wipe HDD or Clear HDD commands were executed in the Partition Manager or the Restore Image action. Fixed.
- It was impossible to perform operations on individual partitions during setting a Copy whole HDD action. Fixed.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7001 Tue Jan 18, 2022
Cosmetic improvements and minor bugfixes.
R-Drive Image 7.0.7000 Wed Jan 12, 2022
NOTE: Starting from 7.0 version, R-Drive Image Standalone license DOES NOT support operations for WINDOWS SERVER 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003, but the software compatibility and all features can still be tested on the servers within 30-day trial period with no limitations.
New features:
+ A new, completely redesigned wizard interface with improved graphical controls, drag and drop object manipulations, and visual source and target binding.
+ A partition manager that allows the user to delete, wipe, create, and re-size partitions and logical disks.
+ Image creation from individual files, not only from disk objects.
+ Disk wiping. The entire disk can be wiped using simple or advanced wiping algorithms. This feature is very useful for disk cleaning before disposal.
+ Advanced and versatile logs accessible directly from the user interface.
+ Advanced file filtering to make search for files and marking them easier. File filters can be created directly on a R-Drive Image panel or set/edited manually (Batch mode).
+ Support for rotation schemes (a further development of backup sets). A rotation scheme is a set of files (usually a file for a full image of an object and a number of its incremental/differential backups) which R-Drive Image treats as one unit. Rotation schemes are used to flexibly control the parameters of complex backup tasks. R-Drive Image supports predefined and custom rotation schemes. Custom rotation schemes are available in the Corporate, Technician, and Commercial licenses.
+ Support for the VMDK file type, a popular virtual machine disk format (only in Corporate, Technician, and Commercial Licenses).
Improvements:
* Support for APFS sealed volumes in macOS BigSur has been added.
* Support for ReFS 3.7 (Windows server 2022) has been added.
* The OpenSSL used in the built-in mailer has been updated to the 1.0.2 version.
Bugfixes:
- exFAT partitions may have been copied incorrectly. Fixed.
- FAT32 Bitlockers to go couldn't be detected. Fixed.
- S.M.A.R.T. attributes for Intel NVME devices were determined incorrectly. Fixed.
- The task finish time parameter was omitted in email reports. Fixed.
- The size of virtual free space that occupied the entire uninitialized drive may have been determined incorrectly. Fixed.
- If GPT partition table copies had the same offset/size but different GPT Guids, the partitions were duplicated two times. Fixed.
- The resulting partitions and volumes weren't immediately combined into equals when ReFS partitions were copied/restored. Fixed.
- An unnecessary direct volume may have appeared for a single formatted partition which end coincided with the drive's end. Fixed.
- The mount driver may have loaded incorrectly under Windows XP/2003. Fixed.