What's new in Active@ Disk Image Professional 24.0.2
Feb 1, 2024
- Added support for BitLocker encrypted volumes
- Fixed creating scheduled tasks for dynamic volumes
- Other minor fixes and improvements
- Improved Boot Disk Creator – added Display Scaling and Network Resource mapping
- The latest Active@ Boot Disk based on WinPE (Windows Server 23H2 code base)
- Boot Disk includes much more storage drivers for Dell, HP and Lenovo
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 23.1.5 (Oct 31, 2023)
- Improved support for large (more than 64KB) clusters in NTFS
- Improved support for dynamic disks
- New improved Active@ Boot Disk and Boot Disk Creator
- Bug fixes
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 23.0.0.2 (Sep 20, 2023)
- Improved support of large cluster size NTFS volumes
- Improved HiDPI support
- Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 11 v22H2 code base
- Improved compatibility with third party raw images
- Bug fixes and other improvements
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 23.0.0 (May 10, 2023)
- Improved HiDPI support
- Improved support of large (more than 64KB) cluster size NTFS volumes
- Improved compatibility with third party raw images
- Many fixes and minor improvements
- Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE based on Windows 11 v22H2 code base
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 11.0.0 (Nov 26, 2021)
- Windows 11 support
- Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE based on Windows 11 v21H2 code base
- Revised logic for deleting of old backups, auto-deletion of incomplete backups
- Added more detailed error information
- Fixed app crash when incorrect check sum is detected
- Fixed Explorer crash when restoring a folder containing an empty folder
- Added detailed hardware information to the log
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 10.0.3 (Nov 13, 2021)
- Added possibility to Run a task from the Tasks dialog
- Fixed: Old logs not rendered properly after 10.0.2 upgrade
- Fixed: Cannot save scheduled backups to a network drive with version 10.0.2
- BootDisk Doc & Qt5 x64 DLLs removed from Free & Trial versions, freewares became less in size
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 10.0.2 (May 27, 2021)
- Improved support for disks with sector size 4096 bytes.
- Fixed:
- Windows 10 might not boot properly after recovery or Copy Disk on UEFI system.
- Fixed:
- Scheduled backup fails if the destination folder does not exist due to HDD
- replacement.Minor bug fixes & user interface improvements.
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 10.0.0 (Nov 25, 2020)
- Added Amazon Clouds support: backup to & restore from AWS clouds
- The latest Active@ Boot Disk - WinPE upgraded to Windows build 2004
- Boot Disk Creator improved to configure Clouds access
- Minor bug fixes & user interface improvements
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 9.5.2 (Oct 21, 2019)
- Improved backup/recovery for the latest Windows 10 updates
- Many improvements and bug fixes
- Pro version: Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 10 build 1903
- Pro version: Active@ Boot Disk now fully supports SATA & PCI-E NVMe M.2 disks
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 9.1.2 (Nov 14, 2018)
- Added support for raw images in VirtualDisk
- Added support for ReFS in Explorer
- Minor user interface improvements
- Fixed bug preventing proper display of exFAT partitions in Explorer
- Fixed raw images compression in Disk Image and VirtualDisk
- Professional version: the latest Active@ Boot Disk and Boot Disk Creator improved
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 9.0.0 (Apr 12, 2018)
- Added revolutionary Fast compression method
- Added the latest ReFS file system support for native backups
- Improved handling of GPT partitions and disks
- Fixed MBR/GPT restoration issues for most complex OS configurations
- Many improvements and bug fixes
- Professional version: the latest Boot Disk is now based on WinPE 10 (build 1709)
- Professional version: added Boot Disk customization & saving/restoring its state
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 8.0.3 (May 14, 2017)
- Improved slow RAW image creation for non-Windows partitions
- Task scheduling uses Task Scheduler API 2.0 on Vista+
- Added support for Microsoft Storage Spaces
- Added network credentials support for scheduled tasks
- Improved driver installation for Virtual Disk
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- New security includes product activations
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 8.0.1 (May 7, 2017)
- Improved slow RAW image creation for non-Windows partitions
- Task scheduling uses Task Scheduler API 2.0 on Vista+
- Added support for Microsoft Storage Spaces
- Added network credentials support for scheduled tasks
- Improved driver installation for Virtual Disk
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- New security includes product activations
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 7.0.2 (May 13, 2015)
- Progress displayed on the TaskBar icon
- Scheduled Running task Progress can be monitored
- User interface & performance improvements
- Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 5.1 64-bit (x64) base which performs faster & optimizes RAM usage
- Active@ Boot Disk now being able to boot the latest UEFI Secure Boot systems
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 6.0.2 (Apr 2, 2014)
- Added support for SMTP servers not requiring authentications;
- Minor GUI fix
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 6.0.1 (Apr 2, 2014)
- Added full support for exFAT file system
- Added minimization of windows into tray during creating/restoring/clonin/copying/verifying
- Removed text log settings (now created automatically)
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.6.2 (Apr 2, 2014)
- Fully supported disks 4096 bytes sectors (ADI & RAW images)
- Windows 8.1 backup/restore support with BCD correction
- Added German translation
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.5.2 (Apr 2, 2014)
- Multi-language support (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish). Installation & Boot Disk Creator as well.
- Active@ Virtual Disk (RAW & ADI images can be mounted and visible in Windows Explorer, read-only mode)
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.4.2 (Jan 3, 2013)
- Added Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 to the list of recognized OSes
- Registry path changed from Active Disk Image 3.0 to Active Disk Image
- Prevents Windows 8 to go to sleep if a disk image activity (create, restore, verify) is performed
- Added to the log indication whether original partition size is preserved when restoring a disk
- Fixed: Restoring an image of the whole disk might cause error in creating of partition
- Pro version: Latest Boot Disk Creator includes Network pre-configuration and security features
- Pro version: Latest Boot Disk Utilities, Documentation & Virtual Keyboard added
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.3.1 (Oct 15, 2012)
- Generic uncompressed raw images support
- Editing scheduled tasks
- Pre- and post-execution commands for scheduled tasks
- Changed: Partitions are now created aligned to 4K boundary for improved performance on SSD disks
- Fixed: DIM crashes when creating a RAW image of not initialized disk
- Boot Disk – also contains all latest improvements:
- Driver's Packs for Medis Storages/USB/Networks
- Updated browser and other utilities
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.2.5 (Feb 7, 2012)
- Disk image 5.2.5 version of disk image software: performance increased up to 150% on multi-core systems;
- Boot Disk latest utils & latest BootDiscCreator.
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.2.0 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Performance increased up to 150%
- Fixed: Scheduled tasks don't send notifications when running under system account
- Fixed: Error 3 while creating a raw image of dynamic drive
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.1.2 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Fixed: App may cause Access Violation when in BootDisk while creating an image of a single partition
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.1.1 (Dec 22, 2011)
- New: Added image verification after creating an image
- New: Added shutdown option after creating an image
- New: E-mail notifications
- New: Starter Edition
- Fixed: If incremental and differential images located in the same folder selecting differential image to restore will show the list of incremental images to select from
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 5.0.2 (Apr 12, 2011)
- New: Added scripting support
- New: Image encryption
- Fixed: Unable to restore partition as logical drive onto not initialized disk
- Fixed: When selecting a base backup for incremental/differential image, only .ADI files should be shown
- Changed: A warning added to the log suggesting to reboot machine in case of restoring/copying to a GPT disk
- Fixed: Refreshing device list in the main menu does not affect device list in script wizard
- Fixed: Application might crash on disks bigger than 2 TB in certain conditions
- Fixed: Fixed: Application crashes when disks with sector size bigger than 512 bytes are connected
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 4.2.4 (Nov 2, 2010)
- New: Copy Disk to Disk feature (direct copying partitions with resizing)
- New: Scheduled incremental backups support (Pro version)
- New: Incremental backup of unknown file systems is supported
- Fixed: Creating raw image on the disk with insufficient space causes Error=2 at the end
- Fixed: Restoring exFAT partition under Windows 7 yields Error=5 at the end of the process
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 4.0.4 (Apr 22, 2010)
- Fixed: "Error: CRT Invalid Parameter detected" appears while making an image of Windows Recovery partition
- Fixed performance issue when creating differential backups
- Fixed: Unregistered trial version does not run by scheduler
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 4.0.2 (Apr 2, 2010)
- Changed: Improved performance of creating full and differential backups
- Changed: Labels in Settings dialog to reflect "default" meaning of options
- Fixed: If a differential backup exists in the full backup subfolder, it is fetched into a list of base backup candidates when creating an incremental image
- Fixed: If a both differential and incremental backup exist in the full backup subfolder, the wrong one can be opened in Disk Image Explorer
- Changed: Speed measurement from KB/s to MB/s
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 4.0.1 (Mar 13, 2010)
- New: Incremental and differential backups
- New: Added support for GPT and Mac OS style GPT partitions
- New: Added partition type detection by ID and GUID
- Fixed: Main app screen might get beyond screen borders if resolution changes
- Fixed: Image Explorer will start off screen if it was closed minimized
- Fixed: App fails to restore a disk with FAT32 partition having more than 32GB of data
- Fixed: Error when restoring multipart RAW images
- Fixed: Opening RAW image in Explorer by clicking on .dim file may cause Access violation error
- Fixed: If an active partition is cloned or restored from RAW or ADI image to a disk which does not have an MBR code, the disk won't boot
- Fixed: Restored Windows 7 system disk might fail to boot with error 0xc000000e
- Fixed: Closing user session aborts backup or restore process closing Disk Image while working
- Fixed: Disk Image Explorer might crash on opening image file passed as command line argument
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 3.3.4 (Oct 7, 2009)
- New: Improved performance of raw image creation
- New: Added backup and restore of unknown file systems (including raw images into .ADI backups)
- Fixed: App locks in during backup of disk with physically damaged $MFT
- New: Fixing BCD storage after restoring a partition
- Fixed occasionally crashes when creating compressed raw image
- New: Fixing BCD storage after cloning a partition or a disk
- Fixed: disk geometry and Hidden Sectors values in partition's boot sector does not get updated during cloning
- Fixed: Confirmation window in Clone partition wizard shows wrong target disk
- Fixed: Error=14 when restoring or cloning a raw partition is now treated as warning "Failed to assign drive letter" and does not interrupt the process
- Fixed: disk geometry in NTFS partition boot sector does not get updated during restore which sometimes might lead to unbootable system
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 3.2.6 (Oct 7, 2009)
- Fixed: Closing backup in Explorer.
- Fixed: When creating an image the confirmation dialog shows the disk number improperly.
- Fixed: Error getting info of a hidden Dell Utility partition.
- Fixed app crash when creating an image.
New in Active@ Disk Image Professional 3.2.4 (Feb 28, 2009)