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Version History

The following is a product history:

Version Date Changes
3.3.4 10/04/2009 - 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
3.2.6 03/19/2009 - 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.
3.2.4 02/27/2009 - New: Improved Create Image performance
- New: Automatic check for updates on start (disabled by default)
- New: Windows 7 Beta is supported
- Changed: Increased screen size to fit 120 DPI, added preserving screen size between sessions
- Changed: User now can re-register software to enter new license key
- Fixed: When creating image of a big FAT partition, progress stops at 8.2 GB
- Fixed: App does not create more than one raw images in a batch
- Fixed: Explorer does not show image creation date/time in property dialog
- Fixed: Error 14 while restoring a DELL utility partition
- Fixed: Disk number is shown incorrectly in create confirmation dialog
- Fixed: After selecting a Raw image to create, selecting another Raw image, moving back in wizard and continuing to confirmation dialog, exception is thrown
- Fixed: Explorer sometimes restorers wrong file (other than selected)
- Fixed: Creating backup of NTFS partition finishes in few seconds due to incorrect $BadClus record
- Fixed: When cloning an active partition, wizard suggests to make a destination partition primary by default instead of active
3.1.18 11/20/2008 - New: Creating multiple disk images in one batch. Raw images and backups can be mixed in one wizard.
- New: Added Floppy Backup and Raw Images support
- Fixed: Exception when an empty FAT16 partition is selected to backup
- Fixed: Used space improperly reported for large FAT32 partition images
- Fixed: Create BootDisk cannot lock a partition due to kernel's open handles
- Fixed: Error reading cluster XXX. MFT# 8, file: $BadClus.
- Unicode support added (including file names and descriptions)
3.1.13 09/26/2008 - Fixed: Partition is recovered as Active instead of Logical
3.1.11 08/28/2008 - Enabled "View Log" in WinPE
- Added Windows Application EventLog support
- Changed: Newer license override existing one
3.1.10 07/07/2008 - Fixed: When a header selected for restoring from image the target disk might be not selectable
- New: Added Refresh Devices buttons to create/clone/create raw image wizards
- Fixed: When closing the application it starts to refresh devices if Partition Manager was launched
  before
- Fixed: "CreateProcess failed. Error=0" error under Vista when launching Partition Manager
- Fixed: Cluster size smaller than MFT record size (512 bytes) might cause incorrect $MFT processing
- Improved error checking for partially corrupted NTFS partitions
- Raw Image type DRIVE is treated as PARTITION now
- Added: Creating and burning ISO images of CD/DVD/Blu-Ray
3.1.9 06/30/2008  Fixed: Restore partition dialog shows "NTFS" or "FAT" type for unallocated space
* New: remembering the most recent locations list in Create Image destination page
* New: "Show welcome screen in dialogs" option
* Fixed: Empty error message when creating an image
* Fixed: "Image verification finished with some errors" for raw images
* Fixed: If two dynamic volumes selected for backup, disk was added twice
* Fixed: App crash under Server 2008 due to old protection lib
* Fixed: Created task not shown in tasks list when compression=HIGH
* Fixed: Create raw image task formats "Creating image. . . " message incorrectly, causing exception
* New: User has an option to place image of each disk into separate backup (supported by manual
  and scheduled images)
* Fixed: Cloning Vista and Server 2008 system partition
* Added Refresh Devices command
* Added attempt to auto-reduce DVD write speed by 1x
3.1.8 04/28/2008 * Prevents Disk Signature updates during RAW images restore and cloning by offering shutdown.
* Added verbose logging for VSS operations, added verbose checkbox to Settings dialog
* GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPointW and WRITER_BAD_STATE errors are now not fatal when gathering VSS writers metadata
* Prompted user to restart VSS service when VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS happened
3.1.6 04/23/2008 * Fixed: "Index Root not found" error
* Implemented data read errors tolerance (retries, auto-downsizing cache, ignoring errors in non-critical data)
3.1.5 04/03/2008 * Rewritten auto-resize logic: partitions are track-aligned, first partition keeps its position
3.1.4 03/07/2008 * Added support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 64-bit
3.1.3 03/04/2008 * Fixed: Compatibility issue with old RAW images: type of image and partition type now auto-detected if not specified in .DIM file
3.1.2 02/29/2008 * Fixed: Burning FAT image on DVD may stop prematurely resulting in corrupted image
* Fixed: Creating FAT image might show wrong progress numbers where bytes written is bigger than total
* Fixed: Error "Invalid Bytes Per Sector value: 1" shown when not the Start Disc chosen as source.
3.1.1 02/22/2008 * Changed: Partition Manager launches PartMan.exe under WinPE and Disk Management console under Windows
* Changed: Startup mode under WinPE 2.0
3.1.0 02/21/2008 * Fixed: Application crashes during the restoration of more than one partitions
* Added speed display for disk image restoration, disk cloning and disk image verification process
3.0.97 02/15/2008 * More accurate time left estimation
* Fixed: Wizards may forbid to keep partitions original size and location even if enough space
* Added speed display for disk image creation process
* Added Active@ Boot Disk Creator calls in main window
* Added Active@ Partition Manager calls in main window
3.0.96 01/30/2008 * Fixed: Running 32-bit app under 64-bit OS
* Fixed: Duplicate disk serial number causes XP to reboot when restoring MBR
* Fixed: Restore Image shown incorrect Data To Process in progress dialog due to invalid UsedSpace
* Used disk space is now updated in every wizard, getting actual data; in progress dialog data to process
displayed instead of used space
3.0.95 01/23/2008 * Fixed: Empty image might be created of USB drive when there are flash reader without flash cards
* Fixed: Fails to create/read an image with non-English characters in filename
* Implemented new licensing model
3.0.94 01/12/2008 * Fixed: Memory leaks
* Added Blu-ray discs support
* 64-bit code for Vista x64: fixed "VSS Configurator class not registered" error
* Fixed: Create Raw Image/Clone Disk for Dynamic volume now use device locking
* New implementation of Create Raw Image and Clone Disk
* Fixed heap corruption and crashes under Vista x64 when creating raw images
3.0.93 12/15/2007 * Fixed: Corrupted manifest for Vista privileges elevation causes XP crash
3.0.91 12/10/2007 * Fixed: Disk Image Explorer splitter shifts leftward every run
* Fixed: Closing Disk Image Explorer before initialization ends might cause exception
* Added command line support for opening disk images in Disk Image Explorer
* Changed bitmaps for backup property dialog
3.0.0   * Released Active@ Disk Image for Windows
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