List of disk imaging software
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This is a list of disk imaging
software and their associated file format
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Disk image
A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, tape drive, floppy disk, CD/DVD/BD, or USB flash drive, although an image of an optical disc may be referred to as an optical disc image...
software and their associated file format
File format
A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for...
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Floppy disks
| File format File format A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for... |
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| Disk Copy Fast Disk Copy Fast Disk Copy Fast is a file archiver software utility that creates disk images of floppy disks. It also refers to the file format used to encode the disk image files created... |
.dcf |
| DD Dd (Unix) In computing, dd is a common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data. According to the manual page for Version 7 Unix, it will "convert and copy a file". It is used to copy a specified number of bytes or blocks, performing on-the-fly byte order... |
.001 |
| DCFLDD | .001 |
| EnCase EnCase EnCase is a computer forensics product produced by Guidance Software used to analyze digital media . The software is available to law enforcement agencies and corporations.EnCase includes tools for data acquisition, file recovery, indexing/search and file parsing... |
.E01 |
| FDImage | .flp |
| RaWrite | .img |
| DR-DOS DR-DOS DR-DOS is an MS-DOS-compatible operating system for IBM PC-compatible personal computers, originally developed by Gary Kildall's Digital Research and derived from Concurrent PC DOS 6.0, which was an advanced successor of CP/M-86... DISKCOPY |
.img (default) |
| WinImage WinImage WinImage is a disk imaging application for Microsoft Windows created by Gilles Vollant Software. Its features include creating, reading and editing disk images and also opening VMware and Microsoft Virtual PC hard disk images... |
.ima |
| Microsoft Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual PC Windows Virtual PC is a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product... |
.vfd |
Hard disks
| File format File format A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for... |
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| Acronis True Image Acronis True Image Acronis True Image is disk imaging software, developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems. The software allows a user to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media... |
.tib | Commercial |
| Drive Image | .pqi | Commercial (discontinued) |
| BackupAssist BackupAssist BackupAssist is a backup software product created for use with the Microsoft Windows environments. Developed by Cortex I.T Labs, it is aimed primarily at the small to medium business market and provides protection for Windows Server, Hyper-V, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL... |
.vhd | Commercial ( Free 30-day trial ) |
| Clonezilla Clonezilla Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan... |
Free software (GNU GPL) | |
| CompuApps DriveBackup | .cim | Commercial |
| DriveImage XML | .dat and .xml | Free for personal use, Commercial |
| StorCube PC/Server Backup and Recovery | .vhd and .xml | Commercial |
| Drive Snapshot | .sna, .SN1, .SN2, .SN3, .SN# | Commercial |
| CopyCatX CopyCatX CopyCatX is a backup software product produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc. The software uses byte and block-level copying to make exact duplicates of devices and volumes.... |
.dmg, .volarchive | Commercial |
| DD Dd (Unix) In computing, dd is a common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data. According to the manual page for Version 7 Unix, it will "convert and copy a file". It is used to copy a specified number of bytes or blocks, performing on-the-fly byte order... |
.001 | Free software |
| DCFLDD | .001 | |
| EaseUS Todo Backup / Disk Copy | .pbd | Freeware |
| EASIS Drive Cloning | .img | Free Edition for personal use; Commercial |
| EnCase EnCase EnCase is a computer forensics product produced by Guidance Software used to analyze digital media . The software is available to law enforcement agencies and corporations.EnCase includes tools for data acquisition, file recovery, indexing/search and file parsing... |
.E01 | Commercial |
| TotalRecovery TotalRecovery TotalRecovery is a backup and recovery software product, developed by FarStone Technology. Formerly known as DriveClone, TotalRecovery is written in C++ and runs only on Microsoft Windows .... |
.fbd, .sco | Commercial |
| Genie Backup Manager Genie Backup Manager Genie Backup Manager, developed by Genie-soft Inc, is a backup software for Microsoft Windows operating systems that can back up and restore the whole system to many local and remote devices including internal and external hard disks, Iomega REV Disks, FTP locations, online, across network, and... |
.gbp | Commercial |
| Ghost Ghost (software) Ghost is a disk cloning program product sold by Symantec. Originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research, the technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec. The name Ghost is an acronym for General Hardware-Oriented System Transfer.- History :Binary Research developed Ghost in... |
.gho, .v2i | Commercial |
| Macintosh Macintosh The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a... Finder Finder Finder may refer to:* Finder , a core component of the Apple Macintosh operating system, is the graphical representation of the computer's file system* Finder , a comic book series by Carla Speed McNeil... , Disk Utility Disk Utility Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include:*the creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or—for CD/DVD images—.cdr, which is identical to... |
.dmg | |
| Macrium Reflect Macrium Reflect Macrium Reflect is a backup and disk imaging software program for Microsoft Windows developed by Paramount Software UK Ltd in 2006. It creates disk images and file backup archives using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to ensure 'point in time' data accuracy., the latest version supports... |
.mrimg | Free Edition for personal use, Commercial |
| Microsoft Server 2008 backup Wbadmin Wbadmin WBAdmin is a command-line utility built into Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The command is used to perform backups and restores of operating systems, drive volumes, files, folders, and applications from a command-line interface.WBAdmin replaces the... |
.vhd | |
| Microsoft Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual PC Windows Virtual PC is a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product... |
.vhd | |
| Nero BackItUp | .nbi, .nba, .nda | |
| NTI Backup Now! | .nbs, .nbf, .npf | |
| O & O DiskImage | .omg | Commercial |
| Paragon Drive Backup | .pbf | Free Edition for personal use, Commercial |
| Partimage Partimage Partimage is a disk cloning utility for Linux/UNIX environments. Partimage can save partitions in many formats to a disk image. Utilities such as Partimage are useful in a number of situations which are commonly encountered by network administrators as well as advanced computer users who maintain... |
.partimg, .partimg.gz, .partimg.bz2 | Free software (GNU GPL) |
| PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) PING is a free software Linux-based live CD ISO image built upon the Partimage and Linux From Scratch projects for disk cloning or backup purposes. The software supports most hardware platforms using Parallel ATA, Serial ATA, or SCSI systems for desktop computers, workstations, and servers... |
Free software (GNU GPL) | |
| Spotmau PC Beginner/PowerSuite Professional | .pce, .pch | Commercial |
| StorageCraft ShadowProtect | .spf, .spi and .sp#. | Commercial |
| TeraByte Image for Windows/DOS | .tbi | |
| Uranium Backup Uranium Backup Uranium Backup is a backup program for Windows environments developed by Freesoft S.r.l., an Italian software company. Originally started as a personal project of the Italian programmer Alberto Tozzi, Uranium gained traction thanks to the adoption by several small and medium Italian businesses... |
.vhd | Freeware and Commercial |
| VirtualBox VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products... |
.vdi | |
| VMware VMware VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary .... |
.vmdk | |
| Windows Imaging Format | .wim | |
| BootIt Next Generation | .img | |
| R-Drive Image R-Drive Image R-Drive Image is a disk cloning utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes developed by .-Backup process:... |
.arc | Commercial |
Optical discs
| File format File format A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for... |
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| Alcohol 120% | .mds |
| BlindWrite BlindWrite BlindWrite, the successor to BlindRead, is a computer program that writes to recordable CDs. The Blindread software, which reads CDs and writes CD image files, has been discontinued as a separately released product, but BlindRead's code is included in the newer BlindWrite suite of software that... |
.bt5, .bt6, .bwa, .bwi, .bws, .bwt |
| CloneCD CloneCD CloneCD is proprietary optical disc authoring software that makes exact, 1:1 copies of music and data CDs and DVDs, regardless of any Digital Rights Management restrictions. It was originally written by Oliver Kastl and offered by Swiss company Elaborate Bytes, but due to changes in European... |
.ccd |
| CloneDVD CloneDVD CloneDVD is a proprietary DVD cloning software, developed by Elaborate Bytes, that can be used to make backup copies of any DVD movie not copy-protected . The program is able to transcode a dual layer DVD movie to fit it onto a DVD-R, DVD+R or DVD+R DL disc... |
.dvd |
| CDRWIN CDRWIN CDRWIN is a CD/DVD burning software for Microsoft Windows developed by Golden Hawk Technology company.Once popular, CDRWIN's usage has diminished due to the bundling of limited versions of other software packages, such as Nero Burning ROM and Roxio Easy CD Creator, with new computers and optical... |
.cue |
| CopyCatX CopyCatX CopyCatX is a backup software product produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc. The software uses byte and block-level copying to make exact duplicates of devices and volumes.... |
.dmg, .volarchive |
| Daemon Tools Daemon Tools Daemon Tools is a disk image emulator and optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows. Daemon Tools was originally a furtherance in the development of another program, Generic SafeDisc emulator, and incorporated all of its features. The program claims to be able to defeat most copy... |
.sav |
| DiscJuggler DiscJuggler DiscJuggler is a professional CD/DVD recording software program, able to duplicate multiple CDs at once with its ability to simultaneously drive multiple CD recorders and replicate virtually any existing standard CD... |
.cdi |
| Easy CD Creator | .cif |
| ImgBurn ImgBurn ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media . Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary... |
.iso |
| MagicISO MagicISO MagicISO is a CD/DVD image shareware utility that can extract, edit, create, and burn disc image files. It offers the possibility of converting between ISO and CUE/BIN and their proprietary Universal Image Format disc image format.In addition to being able to edit the contents of the disc images... |
.uif |
| Nero Burning ROM Nero Burning ROM Nero Multimedia Suite is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows by Nero AG . Version 10 of this product was released in April 2010.- Included products :The following applications are included in Nero 11 :Disc authoring... |
.nrg |
| NTI Media Maker | .ncd |
| Power ISO | .daa |
| Roxio Creator | .gi, .c2d |
| Roxio Toast Roxio Toast Roxio Toast is an Optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X. Its name is a play on the word burn, a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser.... |
.toast |
| UltraISO UltraISO UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO image files used for optical disc authoring.Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.UltraISO is currently produced by EZB... |
.isz |