Alternatives to Image for Windows
A Windows disk imaging program for full and incremental backups of whole drives and partitions. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Image for Windows
A Windows disk imaging program for full and incremental backups of whole drives and partitions.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Image for Windows.
Macrium Reflect
Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore.
Macrium Reflect is paid Windows imaging with a well-tested rescue environment and Rapid Delta imaging and restore, though its long-standing free edition was retired.
Acronis True Image
Personal backup application from Acronis that combines image-based backup with anti-malware protection.
Acronis True Image adds macOS support and anti-malware protection alongside image-based backup, with an optional cloud destination, as paid closed-source software.
AOMEI Backupper
Windows backup and cloning tool with scheduled system and file jobs.
AOMEI Backupper has a free Windows edition with scheduled incremental and differential jobs and a bootable rescue disc, while dissimilar-hardware restore is paid.
EaseUS Todo Backup
Windows backup software for system, disk and file backups on a schedule.
EaseUS Todo Backup offers scheduled incremental and differential backups in a free Windows edition with emergency boot media, while system clone and tape backup are paid.
Hasleo Backup Suite
Free Windows backup for system images, disks, partitions and files.
Hasleo Backup Suite includes system imaging, cloning and bootable recovery media in its free Windows edition, though commercial use requires a paid licence.
R-Drive Image
Windows disk imaging utility that creates byte-by-byte image files of drives and partitions for backup.
R-Drive Image is paid Windows software making exact byte-by-byte images without stopping Windows, with on-the-fly compression at several levels.
Active@ Disk Image
Windows disk imaging software that makes exact copies of disks for backup, upgrades and duplication.
Active@ Disk Image has a free Lite edition, incremental and differential images, and can mount images as virtual drives to restore single files.
O&O DiskImage
A Windows backup program that makes complete system images and file backups and restores them after failures.
O&O DiskImage is paid Windows software that makes full system images plus file and folder backups, aimed at recovery after ransomware, disk failure or crashes.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Clonezilla
A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.
Rescuezilla
A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.
Disk2vhd
Sysinternals tool that turns a running Windows system into a VHD or VHDX disk image.
Veeam Agent
Image-based backup agent for Windows and Linux endpoints, free for individual machines.
MiniTool ShadowMaker
Windows backup software for system images, file and folder backups, syncing and scheduled jobs.
