Drive Image 2002

by Powerquest

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000066J6A
• Item model number: DM60ENK1
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,676 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

No fuss, no fumbling with media; back up your entire drive the easy way with Drive Image 2002. Drive Image utilities let you back up your whole hard drive to another drive as if it was a file. It's fast and easy to back up, and fast and easy to restore your system if you have a disaster. The helpful wizards, the automatic scheduling, and the partitioning tool (for setting aside a section of your drive for backup images) make Drive Image the simplest image tool on the market.

Other utilities make you reboot in DOS to run them; Drive Image 2002 has a friendly Windows interface, and provided you're not backing up your system partition, you can do everything from Windows. If you do want to back up your system partition, the software takes care of rebooting, running the backup, and restarting Windows automatically. And if that's not convenient, you can schedule it to run automatically when you shut down your PC. Plus, you can set it to do regular backups at times when you're not likely to be using your PC.

In addition to the straightforward wizard options, there are also more powerful tools available. If you don't have a second hard drive or space on your primary drive, you can save an image onto a CD-ROM, a removable drive, or another PC over a network. If you want to upgrade to a new system rather than back up your data, you can clone one hard drive onto another. Although it's a Windows program, you can back up Linux file systems as well as FAT, FAT32, and NTFS. You can password-protect your backup partition, back up the Master Boot Record, and clean the boot partition. And when things go wrong, in addition to booting from rescue disks and running a full restore, the ImageExplorer utility lets you retrieve individual files from your backups.

Drive Image 2002 is powerful enough to keep your files safe and simple enough to make backups painless. Just make sure the disk you save your backup to doesn't suffer the same disaster as your PC. --Mary Branscombe, Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com Product Description

Drive Image 2002 is a complete solution for disaster recovery, backups, and system upgrades. PowerQuest's popular backup software easily enables you to restore your data after a computer disaster or system upgrade. Quickly create hard drive images for backup to protect your data. Using a familiar Windows interface, you can create an exact copy of your entire hard drive or partition on a Zip, Jaz, CD-R/RW, or network drive, or another partition.

This latest version includes imaging technology that allows you to create and restore drive images while running Windows, unlike other desktop imaging solutions which require booting to DOS. You can also save your image files directly to another section of your hard drive by automatically creating a dedicated backup partition. Additionally, LAN support allows you to save hard drive images to, and restore from, a network drive. A new and improved online help section quickly guides you through all the software's functions and walks you through common backup scenarios.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Previous Version is Much Better, June 3, 2002

By 

Tony (Northeast USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drive Image 2002 (CD-ROM)

Save yourself a headache and a few dollars and buy the previous version. I used Norton Ghost for years, until I upgraded to Windows XP and just could not get it to work. So I tried Drive Image 5, and kicked myself for not having bought it sooner. What a dream it was over Norton. Mainly, I could actually backup to my secondary hard drive from the Windows desktop. With Ghost, I ALWAYS had to boot from a floppy, then wait a few minutes till a screen showed up, then start the backup process. Even though Norton advertised you could do a backup from the desktop, the 2 techs I spoke with at Symantec told me they recommended backing up from a floppy.

After I made my first backup with Drive Image 5, I tested it by restoring the drive. Bingo! What a snap! Another feature I like about Drive Image 5 is it automatically writes over the previous image I created. With Ghost, I always had to stop and manually delete the previous image.

So I was especially happy when Drive Image 6 came out. And then I was especially disappointed after I got it going. First, they did away with the ability of Drive Image to overwrite the previous image automatically. (I felt like I was back to using Ghost.) And on top of that, it was a headache to delete the previous image: I just couldn't go to Explorer and delete it. I had to go to the Powerquest site and do a search, which I found quickly, on my problem. Their suggestion worked but now I was back in the land of Ghost.

I soon sickened of Drive Image 6's "memory error" messages. I have an 80-gb drive with tons of RAM. The last message I thought I'd ever see was a memory error.

I deleted Version 6 and am sticking with 5. If they bring back the features in 5 on the following upgrade, I'll definitely look to purchase. Other than that, not a nickel.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Be careful with Windows XP and Drive Image 2002 - Revised, June 7, 2002

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"sully624" (Dahlgren, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drive Image 2002 (CD-ROM)

This is a complete reversal of a previous rating I submitted several weeks ago. One of the 'improvements' I picked up along with Windows XP was a little utility called "Go Back". It's a nice utility. Do NOT have it running when you use Drive Image. With that proviso (which IS covered in the manual), the program works with Windows XP as advertised.

The usefulness of Drive Image is that I can make an image of drive C:, a partition on which I place ONLY the Windows operating system and some vital utilities. All of my programs and data files are maintained on other partitions, and the actual image of Drive C: is placed on its own partition on the hard drive, with a backup copy on a CD. This is a configuration that allows an extremely rapid imaging/restoring process. Whenever Windows bombs or needs a cleanup to the point of reinstallation being necessary, a simple restoration of the boot disk from the image and I am back online in 30 minutes or less.

To their credit, PowerQuest worked with me to try to get Drive Image functioning, but I sabotaged the effort by not disabling Go Back. If you're familiar with previous versions of Drive Image, you won't be disappointed by this newest build. Just read the fine manual!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars May work, may not, October 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Drive Image 2002 (CD-ROM)

The big reason to purchase Drive Image is supposedly the Windows interface which is user friendly and easy to use.... if it works. On machines with SCSI as well as IDE drives, the Windows interface may not work (like on my machine) and you're back to booting disks to run the program (like Ghost). And it's not easy to find this information. It took me hours to come across this on the Powerquest website. Also, for support they want a copy of a file which cannot be created in Windows XP because it wants direct disk access and Windows won't permit it. I would imagine there is some way to run it, but hey, enough is enough just to get a question answered like "why won't this program work?".