Disk imaging modes
Two hard disk imaging modes allow Drive Backup to work with any hard disks' partitions, regardless of the file systems you use. You can create backup images or clone Windows, Linux or whatever partitions even with corrupted file systems.
Quick Copy mode is the time-saving mode used by default for hard disk imaging. Only sectors currently containing data are included into hard disk image (FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3 FS, HPFS, Linux Swap). This mode also saves memory required for keeping the disk's backup image.
Sector-by-Sector mode of hard disk imaging lets you to copy all the sectors of the source hard disk: used, unused, marked as bad (if any). This mode is useful for partition-bounded software backup. In this mode Drive Backup can copy or move partition of any file system.
Some functionality of Drive Backup depends on the file system. Here is a table of the most common operations able to be performed:
| Features |
FAT16/FAT32 |
NTFS |
HPFS |
Linux Swap |
Ext2/Ext3 FS |
Other |
| Backup, restore |
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| Copy, move |
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| Copy with resize |
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| Partition Undelete |
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See also:
Backup Capsule
Backup Image
Bootable CD
Data restore
Differential Backup
Disk imaging backup
Hard disk cloning
Recovery CD