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3.11. Creating a Disk Image

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

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

If you run into difficulty, or do something wrong while attempting to recover deleted files (for example, by recovering them onto the originating drive instead of a different drive, thereby destroying their contents), you will be able to recover these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that you have wisely created.

Disk Image consists of configuration file (with an extension .DIM) and set of files having extensions .000, .001, .002 and so on. The size of each file is 2 Gb to accommodate most file systems (FAT16 and FAT32 file systems do not support file sizes larger than 2 Gb and 4 Gb respectively).

User's Guide content

  1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW
    1. Restoring Deleted Data
    2. Files Erased
    3. Partition Damage
    4. Steps to unerase Files and Folders
  2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  3. USING Active@ UNERASER CONSOLE
    1. Starting Active@ UNERASER DOS console
    2. Starting Active@ UNERASER Windows console
    3. Command Bar Menu
    4. Performing a Drive Scan
    5. Performing a Device Scan
    6. Searching for Deleted Files and Folders
    7. Searching for Files by Name
    8. Using Hex/Text Viewer
    9. Unerasing a Deleted File
    10. Unerasing a Deleted Folder
    11. Creating a Disk Image
    12. Steps to create a Disk Image
    13. Checking Disk Image
    14. Working with Disk Image
    15. Long File Names Support
    16. Recovering Files with Long Names
  4. DATA RECOVERY TIPS
    1. Treat Recovery Area With Care
    2. Save Recovered Files Onto a Different Drive
    3. Load UNERASER to a Floppy
  5. PREPARING TO USE THE UTILITY
    1. Preparing a DOS-Bootable Floppy Disk
    2. Preparing a Bootable ISO CD-ROM Image
  6. USING COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
    1. Overview of Command Line Parameters
  7. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
  8. HOW TO...

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