This approach can save you space and increase the speed of the disk image creation. When you recover the Data Image later on, all unused clusters will be zeroed. Data Image - an image containing only the drive's used clusters. Or press + to create a Data Image (for logical drives and partitions only).
Click the button next to ‘Open disk image’ to open disk imaging module. Depending on the state of the file system JpegDigger may open the Override Window. Select the drive you will be imaging from the drop down list. Not one bit of data is missed in this case. Creating a Flash Drive Disk Image using JpegDigger. A raw image is usually larger than a Data Image, but contains all information on the disk. This means that all existing and even some deleted files will be copied to the image. It includes used as well as unused clusters and sectors. Raw image is an image containing all drive's data - a mirror of drive's surface stored in one file or set of files. If you want, you can press to scan a partition and preview files located there (for logical drives only). Verify source disk parameters (name, serial, file system, size, etc) on the right side.Select the device, for example "Hard Disk Drive (80h)", if you want to create image of the whole hard disk (HDD/SSD) or Select the logical drive, for example "Local Disk (C:)", if you want to create image of the particular partition (volume).Disk Image creationĪ "Disk Image" is a copy of the drive saved in a file or set of files.Ī Disk Image is used for backup/restore purposes as well as for the analysis and recovery of deleted files.Ī Disk Image for the whole Hard Disk Drive or for a particular partition (or logical drive) can be created using Disk Image software.