Copy The Drive Once.Then Do Everything To The Copy.

A drive that clicks, overheats or disconnects has a limited number of reads left in it. Spend them on one careful, in-order copy and the recovery runs on the image file, as many times as it takes. The same disk imaging software clones a healthy disk to a new one when it is time to move, so disk cloning software is not a separate purchase.

Windows 10 And 11Scan And Preview FreeReads The Drive, Never Writes
An external hard disk being copied to an image before recovery

What Disk Imaging And Cloning Looks Like In DRE Pro

01

Make An Image Of A Drive

A full sector copy of any drive Windows can see, written to an image file on another disk.

02

Scan This Image

The image opens under Drives And Locations like a drive. Quick Scan, Deep Scan and RAW Scan all run on it.

03

Clone Entire Disk

Copy one disk to another, partitions and all, when you are replacing a healthy drive with a bigger or faster one.

04

Migrate Windows

Move a working Windows installation to a new disk, even a smaller one, with C: shrunk to fit and grown back after.

05

Windows To Image File

Keep a full copy of the Windows disk as an image before a risky change.

06

Drive Health Decides

The health report tells you whether to image first. Copy It Now means exactly that.

Make An Image Of A Drive, Then Scan This Image.

The image is a sector-by-sector copy of the whole drive, free space included, because the free space is where deleted files live. When it finishes, Scan This Image recovers from the copy.

How It Works, Step By Step

  1. Check Drive Health. A warning or a falling percentage means image before anything else.
  2. Connect a destination disk with more free space than the source drive's full size.
  3. Open Disk Tools, choose Make An Image Of A Drive, pick the source and the destination.
  4. When it finishes, press Scan This Image and recover from the copy. Keep the original unplugged.

Why People Pick DRE Pro For This

Not a list of adjectives. Three things that change what happens to your files.

A Weak Drive Is Read Once

Ten nervous scans become one steady copy. The drive gets a rest and the recovery gets a stable source.

Try Every Scan

Quick, Deep, Signature, repeated as often as you like, without wearing the original.

A Clone Is A Spare

Clone the healthy disk before it becomes a weak one and the bad day never arrives.

Disk Image Against Backup

A backup copies the files the file system knows about. A disk image copies every sector, including the free space, the deleted files, the lost partitions and the damaged tables. For recovery only the image is useful, because the things you are looking for are precisely the ones the file system no longer lists. The image file is the same size as the drive, so a 1 TB drive needs a 1 TB file.

Cloning A Disk

Clone Entire Disk copies the partitions and the boot information, so a cloned Windows disk starts up like the original. Migrate Windows is the version for a new SSD that is smaller than the old hard disk: it works out how much of C: is actually used, shrinks the copy to fit and expands it again on the new disk. The destination is wiped in the process, so pick it carefully.

There is no image-to-disk restore in this version. An image is for scanning and recovery, a clone is for moving to a new disk.

Questions People Ask Before This One

Short, honest answers. For anything else, the support desk picks up Monday To Saturday, 11:00 AM To 7:00 PM.

How Big Is A Disk Image?
The same size as the drive it copies, including free space. Save it to a disk with room to spare.
Can I Image A Drive That Keeps Disconnecting?
Yes. DRE Pro waits for a dropped drive to come back and carries on. Use a short, good cable and a port on the computer itself rather than a hub.
Does Cloning Copy Deleted Files Too?
A clone copies sectors, so free space and deleted files come across as well. If the aim is recovery rather than a working spare, make an image instead and scan it.
Can I Clone A Hard Drive To A Smaller SSD?
Use Migrate Windows. It shrinks the Windows partition to its used size, copies it and grows it back. The used data must fit on the new drive.

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