The .BMR file extension is used by 'Bare Metal Restore' for backing up and restoring data from hard drives.
Each partition is saved as a single .BMR backup file.
Other .BMR file extensions
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innkeeper
2009-07-04 08:41:54
#1
I have a .BMR file on my C: drive and my Maxtor mini drive is the F: drive. Can I delete the .BMR file on my C: drive? If I do am I losing anything important?
JC
2009-08-02 12:42:54
#2
I have a Maxtor OneTouch4, and on it is a file with a ".BMR" extension. It will not "open", and does not seem to be associated with any programs to open it.
What is it, and what opens it?
GHWideGlide
2010-01-26 22:11:59
#3
I have a Maxtor Onetouch 4 Plus and have a .bmr$D image file on it. Can I just reinstall just that file to the D: partition of my hard disk without messing up the C: drive partition using the SaftyDrill boot CD? Jan 26, 2010
Sandi Freithoffer
2010-05-22 07:41:22
#4
I am having the same problem as everyone else with a Maxtor Onetouch and the BMR files. What is a BMR file and why can't I open them, they are taking 139GB on my Maxtor.
Dave
2010-11-11 21:53:41
#5
The .BMR file is a disk image created by Safety Drill which is one of the tabs in Maxtor Manager. I'd recommend deleting it because the restore fails about 75% of the time. The restore CD that came with the drive only has a limited number of start-up drivers. Seagate has another disk image utility called DiscWizard that has a much higher success rate. If all of your data is backed up with Maxtor Manager you should be fine deleting the .BMR files. If any of you are interesting in using DiskWizard it can be downloaded from seagate's website under the download section.
Paul
2012-01-17 06:48:39
#6
I realize this is way late to be of any help to the people who've asked questions thus far, but perhaps it could help others in the future.
The Maxtor Manager ( S/W that is installed from the Maxtor Drive itself, using the "launch.exe" executable ) software has two distinct functions as it pertains to the backing up of your data.
The first is known as "Safety Drill". Safety Drill is a "disaster recovery" program that copies every single "Used" byte of data from on your internal hard drive and stores it in a single "image file". Furthermore, this image file is compressed thus saving space on your Maxtor and is thus uncompressed during a restore operation.
The naming convention for the image file is as follows. Upon execution, the SD program checks the Computer name ( ie: JIMSPC ) and simply creates a subfolder with the same name. Hence, if you use SD to backup more then one computer, you will see more then one subfolder in the BMR folder with the name of the computer it backed up. After creating the subfolder, SD creates yet another subfolder of that folder called "image", and stores the imaged backup file in this folder with the name "image.bmr".
The other backup is what is known as an "incremental backup". Click the "Backup" icon and creat
