A tool for creating disk images, clones, writing images back to disk, and copying different disk objects. For changes to take effect in OS you may probably have to reload computer. See Volume locking also.
| Button | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Device | Select Device, Logical disk (volume), Image as source/destination sectors |
| Partition | Select Partition as source/destination sectors (use Device button to select the disk before), |
| To select the entire current device/disk/RAID double click the topmost item in the partition list | |
| File | Use file as source bytes / a destination (alternatively Device · Open Image to use file as sectors) |
| Editor | Use the object opened in the Disk Editor window as source bytes |
| Selected | Use selected block of the Disk Editor object as source bytes |
Source fields Start Sector, End Sector, Number of Sectors, Start Byte, End Byte, Size in Bytes are filled in automatically on source selection by buttons. Fields may be altered manually in order to specify an offset and size of a portion to copy.
Destination field Start Sector is also filled in automatically on destination selection by buttons Device, Partition. Start Sector is specified relative to the beginning of the selected destination object.
Continue from: specify position to continue writing to a file. Do not change the source fields when continue creation of the same image. Reverse copy starts next to the specified position and goes backward (setting 1 just copies sector 0).
Reverse copy: copying from the end to the beginning. This may be useful for making image of a disk with bad sectors.
Set Device I/O Parameters to handle I/O errors during copy (number of retries, blocks to skip, etc.).
Constructed RAID may be used as a source/destination.
When Editor or Selected is used as a source then some errors (such as invalid cluster or sector numbers) are silently ignored.