DriveCopy 4.0

by Powerquest

Product Details

Product Manual [620kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005LK7J
• Item model number: DC4ONK1EU
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 31, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,825 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

DriveCopy 4.0 by PowerQuest allows you to copy and upgrade your hard drive with ease. In a few simple steps your current hard drive is copied to yournew one without losing a single preference, setting, or byte of data.DriveCopy copies the entire contents of your hard drive or selectedpartitions and works with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows2000 Professional, and Linux. It also supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Linuxext2, Linux Swap, and HPFS file systems and hard drives up to 80 GB. AndPowerQuest's Virtual Floppy technology makes DriveCopy easier to use than ever by eliminating the need to create boot diskettes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a product for the faint of heart...., July 30, 2001

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Cliff R. Carpenter "clicar" (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DriveCopy 4.0 (CD-ROM)

I could not get this product to install correctly using the "virtual floppy" option on Windows Millenium. The product has some limitations which are not clearly spelled out in the advertising or the reviews. Namely, you must keep your current partitions intact, although you can copy them over to a new physical drive (ie you can't "collapse" two or more existing partitions into one new partition). I wanted to copy over the contents of an existing C:, D:, and E: drive to an existing, second, already partitioned physical drive - but I wanted this drive to be a single C: partition. You can't do this - you have to copy over the C: D: and E: partitions to an *empty* second physical drive and create the same partitions on the new drive. To its credit, DriveCopy will automatically proportionally resize those same partitions on the new physical dive to maximize the available space on it.

On the credit side: My one call to PowerQuest Tech Support was very productive - the guy I spoke to was knowledgable and helpful. However, he couldn't make the default virtual floppy install work for me either, I ended up installing onto conventional floppies. After that, the copy process was relatively painless and pretty quick.

Some follow-up notes: Since using this product to copy my Windows Millenium installation from one physical drive to another, I've experienced many, many Windows and/or application failures. Prior to this move my Windows installation was relatively stable (perhaps one app or Windows failure per month - it's now about 1-2 per two-hour session). Are the issues related? I can't prove it of course - but I'm suspicious. I don't mean to blame the DriveCopy product here - this is a weakness of the Windows operating system. Still, it's you the user who feels the pain!

Also please note that if you use this product to move your bootable partition (your C: drive) to another physical disk - you must know how to ensure that the new disk is configured correctly (usually via manual jumper wires or switches on the disk itself) to be the Master IDE drive. Note: this assumes you have IDE disk drives - versus SCSI. The vast majority of you will have IDE drives (because they're cheaper!), and they must be configured as either a master or a slave. At the end of the day, the bootable drive MUST be configured as the IDE Master and any other disk on the same IDE channel must be configured as a slave. Moving the jumpers or switches per se is easy - as long as you know what you're doing and/or you have documentation from your disk manufacturer. Getting it wrong may cause your PC to fail to boot up. Don't expect PowerQuest to tell you how to do this - if changing switch options or jumper wires on your hard disk makes you uncomfortable, then don't use this product to move your C: drive to another disk! Or, be prepared to pay a technician to come and do it for you.

Good luck!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not work on XP, January 17, 2003

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"mcnich327" (Southampton, Pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DriveCopy 4.0 (CD-ROM)

If I could give this product 0 stars I would.I used the Virtual flpooy mode first and copied it to my new maxtor 60 Gig hard drive, when done it wouldn't boot up. So then I tried the create program disk mode and again it said that the operation was a sucess. Tried to boot up, nothing but errors. After about 3 hours of wasting my time and money I had to re-install windows Xp from scratch. The drive utility that came with the Maxtor Hard Drive was more useful than this over priced [item]. Maybe it does work in Windows 98 or Me which allows you to run in DOS but not in XP. Powerquest has no updates for this product.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Watch out - This version is buggy!, June 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: DriveCopy 4.0 (CD-ROM)

This release touts a "virtual floppy" mode, which after multiple attempts (and many hours) I could never get to complete a straight drive-to-drive copy. Nowhere close to the ease and dependability of DriveCopy 3.0, but the 30G limitation of that version makes it nearly obsolete. This version (and the included documentation) need some serious corrective work before it will be as reliable as the previous version. A complete waste of my money...