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Creating a Disk Image

A Disk Image is a mirror copy of your entire logical drive or physical device stored as set of files. If you have enough space on another drive, it may be a good idea to create a Disk Image of a drive containing deleted files that you want to recover. 

You might ask, "Why should I create a Disk Image on a drive that holds my deleted files?"

Here is the answer: If you do something wrong while attempting to recover the files (for example, recovering files onto the same drive could destroy their contents), you will be able to recover these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that you have wisely created.

A Disk Image consists of a configuration file (with a .DIM extension) and a set of files with the fllowing extensions: .000, .001, .002... Each file has a convenient size of 2Gb to support FAT16 and FAT32 file systems which do not support file sizes larger than 2GB and 4GB respectively.

How to create a Disk Image:

1. Start Active@ File Recovery and select a drive or physical device that you want to create an image for. 
2. To open the Create Disk Image dialog box, do one of the following:
   • Click Create Image on the toolbar .
   • Right-click the selected item, and choose Create Image on the context menu.
3. In the Save In drop-down list, select another physical device or another logical drive. 
4. Browse to the folder where you want to save the Disk Image.
5. To give the Disk Image file a different name, type one in the File Name field.
6. Click Save.

Watch the progress and wait while the drive's contents are copied to the new location.  You may cancel the image creation process at anytime by clicking  Stop.

Important

You must always create a Disk Image on a drive other than the source drive. Do not try to save a Disk Image of a drive onto itself.

See Also

Open and Work with Disk Image

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