WinImage
What is WinImage?
WinImage is a fully-fledged disk-imaging suite for easy creation, reading and editing of many image formats and fileystems, including DMF, VHD, FAT, ISO, NTFS and Linux. The disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, etc.) or a partition that preserves the original structure. With WinImage in place, you can recreate the disk image on the hard drive or other media, view its content, extract image-based files, add new files and directories, change the format, and defragment the image. All this and more is delivered in one intuitive user interface that enables imaging right out of the box.
The program has many utilitarian uses at home and in the office. As a serious PC user, you probably have tons of old but still useful floppy disks. With WinImage in place, you can turn them into disk images, which can be stored on the hard drive and recreated, when a need arises. In combination with a CD creating tool, WinImage can help you create your own custom boot disk with hardware diagnostic or virus cleaning software to bring a problem PC back up and running without being in Windows. As a hard-disk backup solution, WinImage allows you to save hours and even days restoring a system and configurations on a machine that has experienced a hard-disk crash or software corruption. Along with homes and offices, this ability is a must for training classes, where restoring torn down PC configurations quickly is critical.
WinImage is an ASP shareware program.
WinImage has many cool features!
- Create a disk image from a removable drive (like USB drive), CD-ROM, floppy,
- Extract file(s) from a disk image,
- Create empty disk images,
- Inject files and directories into an existing disk image,
- Change a disk image format,
- Defragment a disk image,
- A powerful "Batch assistant" mode that lets you automate many operations,
- And many more!
WinImage uses a modern, cutting edge Windows interface, and is available for Windows 95/98, and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 server in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
New for version 9.00
- WinImage can be used as portable software (without installation and registry modification), using Xml preference options.
- Write FAT16 or FAT32 bootable image to a removable drive, after erasing, and rebuild partition table.
New for version 8.50
- Fixes for Windows Seven compatibility problem.
New for version 8.10
- Compatibility with VMWare Vmdk Disk image.
- Fixes for Windows Vista compatibility problem.
New for version 8.00
- Compatibility with Virtual Hard Disk image (used by Microsoft® Virtual PC and Virtual Server), in both read only and read/write mode.
- Support of NTFS and Linux EXT2FS/EXT3FS image (only in read only mode)
- Connecting on Linux partition (to view content of Linux partition on connected hard disk)
- Speed improvement in read or write password encrypted file
New for version 7.00
- New toolbar and icon
- Interface improvement: A folder bar can be displayed with the tree of the image in memory. The “folder bar” item in Options menu can be used to enable/disable it
- Option to save/restore/reset the Master Boot record of physical drive (to standard Windows)
- Option to mount CD-ROM image and uncompressed file image, if the FileDisk drivers is loaded.
- Self-extracting file can (option /R) extract to removable drive, by resizing image. You can extract a self-extracting bootable floppy to USB key with this feature
- You can export a hard disk fat image to an image with MBR. This is useful for CD-ROM burning software that don't add the MBR
- You can move file from one folder to another by drag it to the tree view
- The option to modify image size allow you choose the physical drive parameter
- You can modify image and defrag large FAT image not loaded in memory
- With previous version of WinImage, all image with size equal or below 2.88 MB are loaded in memory, and all image bigger are stored on uncompressed .IMA file. The limit size for image in memory is now user defined (in Options Settings, Image tab). This is useful because some features are only available on image loaded in memory, like same as .IMZ compressed file.
- You can now select the size of an image (when you create a new image or change format) with three new options: import the size from existing image file (or from boot sector file), get the size of an existing partition, or enter custom value
- You can view the boot properties of a CD-ROM image
- The boot sector properties dialog box is now available on FAT32 image. This is useful to create FAT32 bootable image
- 64 bits version for Intel Itanium and x64 (for AMD 64 bits and Intel EM64T)
- minor bug fixes (including some fixes on code which create CD-ROM image under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)
