The disk image isn’t initialized, contains partitions that aren’t recognizable or contains volumes that haven’t been assigned drive letters. Please use the Disk Management snap-in to make sure that the disk, partitions, and volumes are in a usable state. Using Active@ Disk Image You can easily create a backup, restore a file or verify a disk image using Active@ Disk Image wizard screens. Select the procedure from the main program window and follow the instructions. To help introduce you to the Active@ Disk Image. A Disk Image is a mirror copy of your entire logical drive or physical device stored as file or set of files. If you have enough space on another drive, it may be a good idea to create a Disk Image for a drive containing deleted files that you want to recover. Active@ Partition Recovery can open. Disk Imaging software creates an exact copy of computer disks, which is often used for data backup, disk cloning and etc. Active@ Disk Image is a PC disk imaging software that can do a backup as well as clone the full hard drive. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other media.

Recovering data from a Disk Image

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

Active@ Partition Recovery can open:

RAW and RAW-Compressed disk images (Active@ Image format: *.DIM)
RAW disk images created by third party software (WinHex, etc..)
Disk Images (RAW format) composed from several chunks
VMWARE (.vmdk) and VirtualPC (.vhd) Disk Images

Create File Backup Disk

To open a Disk Image:

Start Active@ Partition Recovery
To invoke the Open Image dialog, do one of the following:
- In the File menu, choose Open Image..
- Press Ctrl+O key combination
Use drop-down listbox at bottom to specify disk image type: Active@ Image, RAW image, VMWare or VirtualPC
Locate and select disk image file you want to open. Click Open
Confirm Disk Image Type, Bytes per Sector and chunks, specified in configuration file:

If there are no configuration file, you can add chunks and change their order manually, using buttons at the right side
Click **OK88 to complete configuration and read disk image structures

The opened disk image appears in the Local System Devices list.

To work with a Disk Image:

You may treat the opened Disk Image node and its content the same way that you treat other device nodes in the list. You may follow the same steps to perform SuperScan to detect deleted and damaged volumes, to Scan the volume, and then to recover all files and folders to another location.

If you've created raw disk image using other third-party utilities (like copying sectors from WinHex) you are still able to open it! Just choose Any Raw Image disk image type in the Open File standard dialog and you will see all files on the disk. Select the required one.

User's Guides Active@ Disk Image

Selecting a Disk Image to Restore

When you are restoring a disk image, you may restore an entire disk, or a partition. In either case, you must first select the disk archive.

To identify a disk image file, type the file name into the File name field.

To open the Open File dialog box and view information about a number of archive files, click Browse. . . The Open File dialog box displays all supported image file types (with file extensions .ADI, .DIM and .ISO).

Click a file in the list to select it. In the Backup Info area of the Open File dialog box, you can view the archive date, file size and description of the file. Adblock filter subscriptions. If the selected image is password protected, a small lock icon appears in the top-right corner of the Backup Info area.

Click OK to return to the Backup Selection wizard screen. The selected image name appears in the File name field.

Create A Backup Disk

Click Next to continue.

When a disk image is split into several files, the image description is placed into the last file of archive. If all files are located in the same folder, you can select any file of the image.

The application will automatically locate the last file of archive and read backup information. If the last file cannot be found, the message in the Backup Info area indicates that The file is not the last file of multi-file archive. . . .

Locate the last archive file and select it to open the image.

You don't need to have all files in one place in order to start restoring the image. As each archive file location is required, the application requests a path to the file.

If the image you have opened is part of an incremental backup, Active@ Disk Image looks for all incremental images in a series and shows them in the wizard. You have to select which incremental image (meaning which version of backup) to open.

Active Disk Image Backup File