System utilities: Disk imaging is also used in system migration.DiskGenius supports to skip bad sectors when imaging damaged hard drive. We can image the hard drive then recover data from disk image without scanning the damaged disk.
In many case, hard drive is damaged to badly that data recovery software cannot scan the hard drive to look for lost data.
What’s more, if you keep these disk backups on several different locations, you will have a good ability to resist risks of data loss, for example, virus, system crash, disk failure. In this case, you can keep several backups created for different hard drive status.
Moreover, the image file can be stored on anywhere that you can access. The disk image file can be restored on various devices such as the original disk, HDD, SSD and removable disks. What is a disk image?Ī disk image is a compressed file that contains the exact copy of a hard drive, including partitions, all data of operating system, boot information, partition table, installed applications, individual data, etc. If you want to backup a hard drive or USB drive into an image file, continue reading. Creating hard drive image is an effective solution to protect, backup files, migrate OS, recover data from damaged disk, etc.
This article introduces a step-by-step method to image a hard drive using Free disk imaging software DiskGenius Free Edition.