Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Powerquest
EAN: 0704966471002
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Powerquest
Manufacturer: Powerquest
Model: DM60ENK1
Packaged Height: 130 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 950 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 40 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 780 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows NT
Platform: DOS
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Windows 95
Publisher: Powerquest
Studio: Powerquest
Product Description:
Powerquest Drive Image 2002 (Does Not Support Windows XP, but does support all others). Reduce your risk by protecting your data with PowerQuests Drive Image 2002. You can quickly create hard drive images for backup to protect your data. Drive Image 2002 easily enables you to restore your data after a computer disaster or system upgrade. Using a familiar Windows interface you can create an exact copy of your entire hard drive or partition in minutes onto a Zip, Jaz, CD-R/W, network drive, or another partition. That way, when the inevitable virus or system crash occurs, you will have an exact image of your drive secured, ready to use.
**Previous Users** Software for previous users is for those who have previous versions of a particular product. The software is also in packaging that is required for the manufacturers rebate. The combination of owning a previous version of the software plus having the correct packaging is what allows the customer to qualify for the manufacturerâs rebate. New users receive packaged software that does not allow them to qualify for the rebate. However, the software itself for both new users and previous users is exactly the same.
Customer Reviews:
 Superb Program (When you Read The Instructions!), 2004-09-14
I've seen the ups and downs reviews, with some people saying this software is catastrophic, and others saying it just isn't all that great. Those people are likely somewhat ignorant of computer technology, PCs, hard drives, file systems, and the like. Don't pay attention to that nonsense: This is a superb little application.
Drive Image 2002 is one of those VERY rare instances in computer life where an application does exactly what it says it will do: perfectly. It's elegant, simple, and for someone who actually reads the basic instructions, pretty much a no-brainer.
I looked at various Web sites, blogs, and commentaries by others, and saw that two good points to remember are to first, defrag the partitions you're going to image; and second, store the image on the hard drive (to a partition that has the room). This is problematic for people who have a single 80GB+ partition for their entire system, but those folks shouldn't be messing with an image program in the first place, as far as I'm concerned.
* You can set an option to split an image into chunks, the default being 670KB, a good size for CDs, and use your burner software to copy over the image file pieces. DI can easily copy directly to CD, but it takes longer.
I tested this program various ways, and in all cases it worked flawlessly. If I understand it, the two "rescue disks" use a different version of DOS than a typical Windows 9x machine, which provides a way to take an entire partition without worrying about open files. Likewise, it avoids the need to use the XP Recovery Console---always an aggravation in itself.
DI 2002 (v. 6.0) had no problem with my Win2K partition, although I'm using FAT32 and not NTFS. I'd suggest getting version 7.x, written to definitely include XP if you're on an XP machine. I imaged the C: and D: partitions (W98se, W2K), then formatted the D: drive. The restore options offer both, or one of the two, using an Explorer-like interface (along with many other options for specific files, or to create and resize partitions on the fly).
I then formatted the C: drive---always a very scary proposition---and booted to the rescue floppies. Again, not a single problem whatsoever. I restored the C: drive in about 5 minutes, and "wah-lah" I was back in business. Amazing!
Creating the image on the hard drive made backing up 5GB of information (10GB of actual space) a breeze. The entire backup, using high compression, took about 10 minutes. The restore was less. When I made a split image file it took about a minute longer.
Whomever used this program and trashed their system, apparently didn't bother to read anything, do anything, or follow any instructions correctly at all. Even so, with the interface being so simple, there must have been a far more serious problem on the systems.
I'm now a convert. No more "backup" programs: From now on, it's the image route for me. With today's trojans, worms, viruses, and other ways to almost immediately hose your system, there's a tremendous amount of peace of mind having a restore process that puts back a perfect system in less than 20 minutes.
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