- Platform: Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
System Requirements
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
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.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best Backup Software So Far,
By Tony (Northeast USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drive Image 5.0 (CD-ROM)
I've been using Symantec's Norton Ghost for several years. Recently I upgraded to Ghost 2002, as the 2001 version doesn't work with Windows XP. Guess what? Neither does 2002. I kept getting some error message. I ... saw other reviews with similar XP problems. Quick research led me to DriveImage 5. What a difference! First of all, with Norton Ghost when you make a backup you have to boot to a floppy disk. With DriveImage you don't need a floppy, you do it from Windows. Drive image boots to DOS automatically and starts the process. With Ghost, each time you backup you have to designate your source and destination drive. DriveImage remembers after your initial backup, so next time you boot all you have to do is click on the create image icon.DriveImage made me kick myself ...for all the years I wasted on Ghost. Also, I had one question with the use so I called the company. Almost no hold time and I got my answer immediately. Norton doesn't have phone support now, so you have to dig through their poorly laid-out support site; but when they did have phone support, it was far from the greatest. It turned out that every time I had to make a backup with Ghost, I had to delete my backup. I was paranoid thinking during the backup process a power surge or some abnormality would mess up and leave me without my previous backup. My only negative is I wish DriveImage's interface were a little easier to figure out. Other than that, it's a dream.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Watch out for Windows XP,
By A Customer
This review is from: Drive Image 5.0 (CD-ROM)
When it works, it works great ... however, even though this program is touted as compatible with Windows XP, there is a known problem with backing up to NTFS disks. Buyer beware.
24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My primary backup solution for years,
By Mark Guzowski (Idaho Falls, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drive Image 5.0 (CD-ROM)
I've been using DriveImage as my primary backup solution for literally years. This latest version is the best so far. I have had no difficulties whatsoever under WindowsXP. I especially like the ImageExplorer!I make backups on a very regular basis, under multiple machines. I've never had a corrupted backup, or been disappointed with the results.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
