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Guide >> How to... >> Creating a Disk Image Creating a Disk ImageA 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:
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 |
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