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Software Drive Image 5.0

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Powerquest
EAN: 0704966520069
Label: Powerquest
Manufacturer: Powerquest
Publisher: Powerquest
Sales Rank: 11385
Studio: Powerquest

Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
In hard disk drive cloning, there are two household names: Norton Ghost and PowerQuest Drive Image. While Ghost, with its wide range of drive cloning and imaging capabilities, is by far the more popular program, the latest version of Drive Image includes enough useful and compelling features to turn this into a real competition.

Intended not as a file-by-file backup solution but as a complete fail-safe solution, Drive Image creates a duplicate of your entire hard disk drive. Among its new features Drive Image 5.0 offers QuickImage, a program that allows some backup and restoring to be done through Windows, including browsing through the contents of an image and restoring individual files. Still, most imaging must be done in pure DOS mode. Drive Image handles the transition gracefully; if it can't create an image through QuickImage, it gives you the option of restarting in DOS mode. (And yes, it can even run in DOS mode in Windows XP.) The new version also recognizes a host of media on which to save images, including CD-RW drives, SCSI drives, and PCMCIA drives.

As with most drive-image programs, you cannot save a recursive image to the drive partition of which you are creating an image. That means you'll need large media (depending on the size of the partition you're imaging) to save a drive image. We tested with a second hard disk drive and with a CD-RW drive. Drive Image 5.0 worked seamlessly in both cases. For extreme cases of hard disk drive failure, you can boot your PC with the Drive Image CD-ROM and start a restore from its interface.

Drive Image 5.0 also includes PowerQuest DataKeeper, an automated partition-imaging program. It allows you to determine which partition, drive letter, or set of files is most important to keep backed up, and it even monitors them for changes so it can create new backups when you've updated a particular file.

Best of all, version 5.0's image-creation routine is much faster than previous versions. What once used to take hours now takes only half-hours. Restoring files is equally swift, and unless you're restoring an entire partition, the process can be done right in Windows.

Drive Image 5.0 is packed with features and, in our tests on Windows XP and Windows Me systems, they all functioned flawlessly. It's a robust drive-imaging program that almost makes us comfortable with the idea of setting aside our copy of Norton Ghost. --Joel Durham Jr.

Amazon.com Product Description:
PowerQuest Drive Image 5.0 helps keep hard disk drive data safe. Whether you're creating an exact image of a hard disk drive for easy recovery or upgrading to a new system, Drive Image can help. Using a familiar Windows interface, you can create an exact copy of an entire hard disk or partition in minutes on a Zip, Jaz, or CD-R/RW drive, or on another partition, ready to use in case of a virus or system crash.

Drive Image includes PowerQuest DataKeeper, which adds an extra level of protection by providing a way to perform secure, automated backups of important data files. Simply select the folders containing the files you want to back up regularly and DataKeeper will automatically save these files to the external drive or separate partition that has been specified.

Unlike some imaging software, it's not necessary to run Drive Image from DOS; Drive Image features QuickImage, a new Windows interface that lets you completely configure and execute imaging sessions in Windows. The QuickImage scheduler lets you schedule regular backups of an entire hard disk drive or individual partitions. Once the schedule is set, backups will occur automatically.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Drive Image is bogus for XP users
The product specification is misleading, this software does not work well with NTFS partitions, as you probably know the system partition in XP must be an NTFS partition. How can this possibly be advertised as XP compatable? I never got it to work even with their on line help support, they just finally gave up on it. Plus everything must be done from boot disks, which really makes it a DOS based program and not an XP utility program. Do not buy, there are better options available, I would suggest ... Read More

Rating:

- Better than the rating suggests
I looked at the comments posted by other customers. This is at least a four star product. The problem with CDR, Possible solutions 1) write the file to the hard drive, then to the CD under windows (If the free allows) 2) update the software, and hardware drivers..
Even then it's unfair to give the product a rating of one for one problem.

I have used Drive Image on DOS > WinXP Pro with no problem. I have also always used the updates provided on the site.

NB This (5.0) ... Read More

Rating:

- Don't waste your time
I'm running a Windows machine 500mghz Pentium III 512 Ram and many extras..Disk Image wouldn't write to the second CD-R (no spanning) so if your image file is over 650 megs and you're using a CD writer, don't bother..Also, the last try I gave the progam, it booted to DOS and then froze. Every time I re-booted the computer it started in DOS and then ran the Disk Image program, which promptly froze. I had to use the Windows 98 rescue disk to recover from the backup program!! Oh, the irony! Well, it took ... Read More

Rating:

- You'll be sorry, this is terrible software!
Power Quest's Partition Magic is wonderful, but you would think Drive Image would follow in Partition Magic's footsteps...WRONG!
This is probably the worst software that I EVER bought. There are only some burners that are compatible with the software, so they say. I even bought one of the burners on their compatibility list. Their support staff wanted to blame it on the burner. Their support page is full of error messages and fixes, if that's not a good clue I don't know what is. I wanted it because ... Read More

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