How can you say anything bad about a program that's free? Even if
it weren't, I wouldn't. I've used DI XML a number of times several
years and for basic imaging from within Windows, you can't beat it.
It creates images with or without unused sectors (the former are
larger, but great for transferring a partition from a rapidly
failing drive to a good one for data recovery), and restores them
whole or retrieves only selected files and folders.
The program is unique in writing header information about the data
being backed up (including sector locations of files, etc.) in XML
format so that it can be read by numerous programs, including Web
browsers. This may not be useful for the average user, but it does
allow us geekier types to process the data in other ways. A module
for the popular Bart's PE boot disc is available so you can restore
images even when Windows won't boot, though creating a custom
Bart's PE disc isn't for technophobes.
Drive Image XML does have limitations. You can't back up
individual files or folders, there's no encryption, and you can't
restore an image to a partition smaller than the one it was created
from even if the data will fit. But for the price, we're not
complaining--the program is the perfect complement to traditional
or CDP programs that lack disaster recovery.
--Jon L. Jacobi
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Drive Image XML
- Version: 1.21
- Downloads Count: 30,016
- License Type: Free
- Price: Free
- Date Added: Sep 21, 2007
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP
- File Size: 1.72 MB
- Author: Runtime Software
Editorial Review of Drive Image XML
Reviewed by: 8pcworld
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