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O&O DiskImage Professional Changelog

What's new in O&O DiskImage Professional 18.4 Build 295

Nov 21, 2023
  • Starting the recovery environment with the F11 key
  • Creation of the recovery partition only at the second attempt
  • Restore suggests "Documents folder" as the source folder although there exist a recovery partition
  • Restore of an image, which is located on the recovery partition fails
  • UI crashes on volume to volume selection on restore

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 18.0 Build 188 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • NEW: The O&O DiskImage engine has been rebuilt
  • IMPROVED: Increase backup, imaging and restoration speed
  • IMPROVED: Load VHD / VHDX images as virtual drives
  • IMPROVED: Merge differential and incremental VHD / VHDX images
  • IMPROVED: Revamped User Interface

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 17.5 Build 491 (Oct 19, 2022)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Restrict general logging
  • Transferring the password file to the boot medium only after user approval
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Renaming the startup button during file backup

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 17.2 Build 439 (Jan 28, 2022)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • GUI: Contents of the file backup are not displayed during recovery
  • GUI: Date format is displayed incorrectly
  • GUI: Crash when switching to "Tasks and Reports" after UI startup

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.5 Build 226 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • ISSUES FIXED (8):
  • Manage backup files: Dialog without plain text error message
  • User disk space is not updated on the O&O DiskImage RecoveryPartition page
  • Manage backup files: List is not refreshed after move
  • Object mapping in script files may not be possible
  • Subsequent conversion is allowed with VHD as well as VHDX selection
  • EULA cannot be accepted for certain screen resolution
  • ADK download link for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 not working
  • MSR partition disappears in the display during an update

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.1 Build 191 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Hints in the e-mail notification irritating
  • Show missing Windows PE base immediately
  • Function for importing backup files to the O&O DiskImage RecoveryPartition
  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • For Microsoft Server 2016/2019, ADK installation directly after download is not possible
  • UI shows wrong task status of the duplication
  • Despite error message during creation, a RecoveryPartition is created
  • Incorrect specification of compression type for file-based backup
  • After clicking on "Create startup media" the UI hangs
  • Boot medium: UI shows "unregistered trial version" although license information is available

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.1 Build 181 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Making the Bitlocker input dialog user-friendly
  • When uninstalling, delete the RecoveryPartition if desired
  • Management of image files on the O&O DiskImage RecoveryPartition
  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • Start from the RecoveryPartition on Basic Disk's not possible on UEFI systems
  • Cannot boot from the RecoveryPartition on GPT disks on MBR systems
  • Displayed writing speed is too high
  • Energy settings program oopcfg.exe is missing

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.0 Build 159 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • Issues fixed:
  • Task Wizard does not start
  • Crash of UI after activation of boot media creation
  • Differential/incremental backup not possible when using the recovery partition
  • Invalid or non-existent path when using the RecoveryPartition after a crash
  • Incorrect ADK download under Windows 10 version 20H2

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.0 Build 155 (Nov 13, 2020)

  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • Update the RecoveryPartition after an error
  • 1-Click Image with "Lock drive" on RecoveryParitition not possible
  • Creating the RecoveryPartition is not possible in all layout situations

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.0 Build 150 (Nov 4, 2020)

  • Note added:
  • RecoveryPartition must not be deleted manually
  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • Boot medium: access to the recovery partition not possible
  • Multiple call to deactivate read protection reports an error
  • Encrypted image file cannot be opened
  • Reading the backup file fails after backup to the recovery partition
  • Recovery from RecoveryPartition not always Possible

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.0 Build 146 (Oct 30, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Using the OODI partition as a default backup path is not always possible
  • Error 0x0000054F on second backup to recovery partition possible if the default path has been adjusted
  • Very detailed hints about the recovery partition in the progress of the UI are only output in the log

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 16.0 Build 142 (Oct 29, 2020)

  • NEW: O&O DiskImage RecoveryPartition - an inbuilt boot source for when disaster
  • Strikes
  • Improved: Revised Boot Medium - Time zone and keyboard settings are adopted by
  • The target system
  • Improved: Extension of file-based recovery - Invalid / defective files can now
  • Be skipped
  • Improved: Update of the SSL implementation

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 15.4 Build 196 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Start medium: set keyboard settings of the computer
  • Changing the default settings of the display modes under Windows PE
  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • Task status in event log is inconsistent
  • Error message of insufficient memory or reading problems when excluding a lot of files
  • Crash of UI after activation and subsequent deactivation of logging
  • Dialog of start medium creation at DPI100% with 1366x768 cut off
  • Name of the currently backed up drive is not displayed
  • If the storage location is aborted, the boot medium basic dialog must be aborted
  • Restore with 3 recovery partitions failed
  • Start of file-based tasks via UI fails
  • Image files after update 15.3.176 are larger than before

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 15.2 Build 170 (Mar 4, 2020)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Option "Add driver" in the start medium creation dialog
  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • For Windows server 2019 old ADK download
  • Name of the currently backed up drive is not displayed
  • Windows-PE Starting point: last setting is not pre-selected
  • Command line starts in the path of the user desktop
  • After switching off logging, the UI no longer reacts
  • Windows-PE Base: Double selection possible
  • Bitlocker dialog within Windows-PE not consistent
  • Boot media dialog empty after activating/deactivating logging
  • File-based duplication ended with internal error
  • Display error during partition selection when duplicating in Server and Workstation Edition
  • AIK download button under Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2 no function
  • ADK download button on Windows Server 2016 shows no response
  • Sometimes crash during file-based duplication

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 15.1 Build 155 (Dec 17, 2019)

  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • Sporadic crashes
  • Crash at "Reread drives" and click on "Start drive imaging"

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 15.0 Build 131 (Oct 30, 2019)

  • NEW: Substructure completely rebuilt to enable fast and regular new feature
  • Sets
  • Speed of all base functions increased.

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 14.0 Build 321 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • DiskImage To Go: Deleting the automatically generated job when creating a new boot medium
  • DiskImage To Go: Existing image files are deleted when a new version of the boot medium is created
  • DiskImage To Go: Extending the automatically generated image file name
  • DiskImage To Go: Data partition should not also be called "OODI"
  • Error codes in the email notification irritating
  • Better identification of a running image process
  • Note on the maximum supported disk size in the boot wizard
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Error updating the task list
  • A corrupt VHDX file is created under Windows Server 2016
  • "Create" button active, even if no base is selected
  • Checkbox behavior during boot medium creation not correct
  • Selection of backup options no longer works
  • "Add driver" greyed out if boot medium is created under Windows 7 with WinRE or AIK based
  • VHD generation not possible under Windows 7
  • DiskImage To Go: Automatically generated job is not created

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 14.0 Build 307 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • VHDX support
  • Feature DiskImage To Go
  • Revision of the VHD support

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.0 Build 201 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • File-based restoration does not restore the "System Reserved"
  • Under certain circumstances empty image files
  • Modifications in the file based backup file are not displayed
  • Problems with incremental/differential backups timeframe is ignored

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.2 Build 176 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Image files larger than before when imaging used sectors
  • Internal crash during x86 installation
  • Explicit exclusion when imaging used sectors partly incorrect

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.1 Build 159 (May 17, 2018)

  • Installation fails on Windows Server 2008
  • Disk mapping incorrect on HPE Logical Volume Manager
  • GPT disk without MSR partition in HPE Logical Volume Manager
  • Boot medium with recovery environment Windows 1803 reports
  • "The installation of O&O DiskImage is damaged."

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.1 Build 155 (Apr 26, 2018)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Optimization of file exclusion and detection of used sectors
  • Support of ExFAT file system for images of used sectors
  • Refresh of internal disk management only in case of changes
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • automatic repair, BCD problems after restore or duplication of a system
  • Restoration aborts when GPT Layout is created

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.0 Build 129 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Setup: O&O DiskImage cannot be uninstalled if, for example, the mount driver has been removed by a Windows update
  • Common: Drivers are displayed as unsigned
  • Agent: Recovery C to disk: System Reserved missing
  • Common: Installed drivers cannot be addressed/used after a Windows 10 upgrade
  • Agent: Boot media creation with ADK/AIK fails

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.0 Build 118 (Dec 27, 2017)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • OODI Driver: Mounting of image files with large drives (>= 3 TB) not possible
  • OODI Agent: Incorrect mounting of a image chain

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 12.0 Build 109 (Oct 27, 2017)

  • New: File Backup Function. We have developed this anew to increase speed - now
  • twice as fast across the board!
  • New: Fully compatible with the new Fall Creators Update from Microsoft
  • Optimized: Creating a native Boot Medium for Bare-Metal Restore

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 11.1 Build 165 (Oct 5, 2017)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • File-based backup: Criteria for a Directory only works
  • with '' at the end
  • Creating the boot media with ADK for Windows 10 version 1703
  • fails
  • Calculation of the maximum Volume size for the file-based
  • recovery/duplication sometimes faulty
  • Error message appears when creating a plugin task

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 11.0 Build 147 (May 11, 2017)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Disabled the confirmation prompt for unmounted drives
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • File-based restore may lead to error
  • File Restore using "restore directory" may stop with error 0xC0020043
  • Splits cannot be skipped
  • UI may freeze upon activation of another window if summary dialog is visible
  • Task creation by wizard: If "immediately" was selected, the start time is preset to 1:30 pm

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 11.0 Build 136 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Merge serial# into boot media

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 11.0 Build 135 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Adopt program settings during update/upgrade
  • Record job status in the event log
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Basic layout with extended partition partially problematic
  • A GPT VHD cannot be converted
  • PlugIn event runs repeatedly
  • Locking system drive during file-based backup aborts
  • Recent actions require UI restart
  • Reports displayed only after UI restart
  • Double click on tree entry leads to duplicate entries
  • File size information wrong for incremental file-based backups

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 11.0 Build 87 (Oct 19, 2016)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Enter serial using commandline
  • Command for duplicating a volume
  • External creation of Boot Medium (BuildPE) available
  • ISSUES FIXED:
  • Exception upon
  • Drive letters duplicated under certain circumstances
  • Restoration of an entire volume with ClearDrive
  • Unmount Drive using Shell Extension does not work
  • Maximum number of images does not work
  • Shell: Right click on drive: Old Icons
  • Excluding wildcards has no effect
  • Service freezes when trying to backup a file as opposed to a folder
  • Loading an image over Shell Extension fails
  • Incomprehensible error message when by creation of boot medium no media or save location entered
  • Backup a folder without "" at the end: Varying error messages
  • "System requirements": Formatting issues
  • Help text improved

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 11.0 Build 61 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Command line interpreter.
  • Revised user interface.
  • Adjustments for extensions to variable DPI settings and high contrast modes.
  • Performance optimization of backup and image creation.
  • BETA-ring functionality.
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Problems with the navigation for the Ribbon tabs when a Start tile is activated.
  • Restoring or validating a split file-based backup is aborted.
  • Restoring or validating a split sector-based image can lead to locked image files.

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 10.5 Build 154 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Image creation failed with splitting.
  • Device plug-in triggered not tasks.

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 10.5 Build 149 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Time frame for task start and start at system startup or logon
  • Extinguishing ability of the pwd file at forgotten password
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Waiting in Eula dialogue prevented the start of the service
  • Problems accessing NAS drives under Windows 10

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 10.0 Build 56 (Jun 30, 2015)

  • New: File-based backup newly created: now up to twice as fast as ever before
  • New: Fully compatible with Windows 10!
  • New: Trigger multiple tasks with portable devices (plug and play)
  • New: Driver integration when creating a boot medium
  • New: Driver integration when also using a boot medium

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 9.0 Build 193 (Oct 15, 2014)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • AGENT: New and enhanced image engine
  • COMMON: Windows Explorer support for restoring files from file-based images
  • COMMON: Support for Windows 10 Technical Preview (Beta)
  • GUI: Redesign of user interface
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • AGENT: VSS Error when backing up a USB Stick
  • AGENT: Save a file based backup to an FTP server fails
  • AGENT: If no credentials for a network drive the warning dialog is not shown

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 8.5 Build 18 (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Definition of a selectable fixed message block for E-Mail notification
  • Add TLS and SSL encryption for SMTP
  • Crash at duplicating and drive selection
  • Creation date is not maintained (file recovery + deduplication)
  • Excluded files are displayed in the overview at the forensic image method

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 8.5 Build 15 (Mar 26, 2014)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • Default enumeration of all Volume Devices
  • Definition of a selectable fixed message block for E-Mail notification
  • Add TLS and SSL encryption for SMTP
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Crash at duplicating and drive selection
  • Creation date is not maintained (file recovery + deduplication)
  • Excluded files are displayed in the overview at the forensic image method

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 8.0 Build 78 (Jan 14, 2014)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • direct FTP access
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • Maximum number of image files on NAS or network share are not considered
  • split backups are not included in the maximum number of backup
  • manually started job shows only current action (0 bytes)
  • Changes in the General settings become active after restarting

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 8.0 Build 60 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • NEW / CHANGED FUNCTIONALITIES:
  • GUI: On Plugging in automatically plugged in device path as default
  • GUI: wizard start button in toolbar
  • PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  • ALLG: Name of the program is not stored in the properties of the file
  • GUI: TreeView +/-nodes are not displayed correctly

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 8.0 Build 53 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Integrated a built-in wizard that accompanies a user step by step through the creation of an automatic data backup. This significantly easier to use backup functionality enables even novice users to create a reliable and fast backup of
  • their data immediately.
  • O&O DiskImage 8 can now also directly create a virtual hard disk (VHD). Until now users had to first create an image and then convert it. In the new version, this intermediate process is no longer required.
  • Also took into account the upcoming end of support for Windows XP with the new version of O&O DiskImage 8 which supports all Windows versions from XP to Windows 8.1. This makes it possible for users to create a backup today under Windows XP which can be used later under Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 later too.

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 7.0 Build 58 (Oct 17, 2012)

  • Imaging Features:
  • NEW: File backup: image and restore individual files and/or folders
  • NEW: Monitoring and warning of security risks
  • Restoration Features:
  • NEW: Now supports EFI/UEFI systems as well as BIOS
  • ENHANCED: Restoring onto different hardware (M.I.R.)
  • NEW: Boot media is based on Windows 7 (also compatible with Vista and XP)
  • Tools:
  • NEW: Create a boot CD from the program itself
  • NEW: Even simpler and quicker user interface

New in O&O DiskImage Professional 4.0 Build 191 (Aug 6, 2009)

  • DiskView
  • Additional compression types (BZIP2)
  • Handling of virtual hard disks (VHD)
  • Advanced Burn Function
  • TrayIcon
  • Advanced Validation