Protect your entire hard drive with Disk Imaging

Disk wear out is inevitable and a common problem we face in everyday life. Creating an image of your hard disk is the best way to protect all your system data from any disk failure or accidental deletion of critical system files or software corruption.

Restoring data from a drive / system image is less time consuming as you do not need to install the operating system separately then restore the backed up data, to get your system up and running. As disk cloning duplicates your entire hard drive, you can restore your system to its initial state in much less time.

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IDrive Disk Clone

Using IDrive's disk clone, you can backup a system with hard disk or an entire drive, with the content exactly as it is on the original storage device, including both data and structure information. The image file can be backed up to the cloud or locally on any external hard drive.

To perform restore on a dissimilar hardware, all you need to do is create a partition similar to the original computer partition and restore the operating system backup. This is particularly useful when you want to upgrade to a new PC hardware.

  • Perform drive / system image backup of individual drive or entire system for major versions of Windows operating system, including servers.
  • In addition to cloud backup, IDrive allows selection of network computers or network-attached storage (NAS) location as the destination for your drive / system image backup.
  • IDrive supports incremental backup so after the initial backup only changed blocks of the disk are backed up.
  • IDrive offers cross-platform compatibility which means a drive / system image created on a PC can be accessed from Mac and Linux.
  • Replicate data to a secondary location like an external hard drive or to IDrive cloud, for effective disaster recovery.
  • Convert the system image to Oracle Virtual Box VDI format, to create a virtual machine.

Data backup Backup instructions

Using the IDrive desktop application you can create drive / system image backup of your system drives.

Data retrieval and OS / System image restore Restore instructions

Quickly restore the disk image data to the local computer or to any external drive.


System Requirements

  • Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2012 Server, Windows 2016 Server, Windows 2019 Server, Windows Server 2022, Window Server 2025
  • 512 MB RAM, 10 MB free hard disk space for installed programs, 20 MB or more recommended for local caching


Note:
  1. Recovery Limitations: The restoration and booting of your computer from an Image backup may not be successful in all scenarios. Factors such as dissimilar hardware, boot file issues, RAID configurations, or other unforeseen circumstances may cause the restore process to fail. It is not guaranteed that a successful backup will restore the system to its original state under all conditions.
  2. Alternative Recovery Options: If a full system restore fails, users can still recover individual files and folders from their backups, ensuring that critical data remains accessible.
  3. Users are advised to regularly test their backups and ensure compatibility with their system's hardware to mitigate potential recovery issues.

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