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X-Ways Imager

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#25 of 30
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5.8
X-Ways Imager's website

The facts below are what the maker publishes about X-Ways Imager, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From X-Ways Imager's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.

All about pricing
PlanPriceWhat it gives you
X-Ways Imager non-perpetual license74 CHF a yearWorks with BYOD for immediate use · listed quantity prices: 2+ Fr.74, 5+ Fr.66, 10+ Fr.59 · The order page labels it non-perpetual; the page does not state a billing interval.
X-Ways Imager perpetual license157 CHF, paid onceListed quantity prices: 2+ Fr.157, 5+ Fr.125, 10+ Fr.115 · Perpetual license for long-term use, with BYOD.

The facts

Each one read from X-Ways Imager's own pages, with the date it was checked.

What it does

Compression
Its compression algorithms offer adjustable trade-offs between speed and compression rate and avoid heavily compressing nearly incompressible data.checked 8 Oct 2026
Damaged drives
Raw images can be filled backwards to work around severely damaged drives that freeze or crash the computer at a particular sector.checked 8 Oct 2026
Disk operations
It can image or clone entire physical disks or individual partitions sector-wise, create raw images or .e01 evidence files, restore images, and compute hashes.checked 8 Oct 2026
Download access
The maker provides download instructions and login credentials through its license database to customers who have access to updates.checked 8 Oct 2026
Integration
The maker describes X-Ways Imager as an add-on for F-Response that can image remote disks and dump remote RAM.checked 8 Oct 2026
Intended users
The maker describes its software as serving computer forensics, electronic discovery, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security.checked 8 Oct 2026
Limits
The product cannot create evidence file containers, skeleton images, or cleansed images; almost all other X-Ways Forensics functions are unavailable.checked 8 Oct 2026
Portable use
It can run directly from a USB device without installation.checked 8 Oct 2026
Privacy
The maker says it does not forward recorded website visitor data to servers outside the European Union, with a stated exception involving customers who received Oracle's OutsideIn component.checked 8 Oct 2026
Purpose
X-Ways Imager is a forensic disk imaging tool and a stripped-down version of X-Ways Forensics focused on imaging functionality.checked 8 Oct 2026
RAID
It can reconstruct disk-based RAID variants including JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 5, and RAID 6 from physical storage devices when the correct parameters are known.checked 8 Oct 2026
Space handling
It can optionally omit free drive space, and images can let X-Ways Forensics treat originally zeroed disk areas as sparse.checked 8 Oct 2026
Special areas
Detection and acquisition of HPA or DCO areas are supported.checked 8 Oct 2026
Support
The maker lists general or technical inquiries by email and says to check the program help or user manual first.checked 8 Oct 2026

The company

Headquarters
Bünde, Germanychecked 28 Sep 2026

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