- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Disaster can strike at any time. Every computer is vulnerable to data loss caused by viruses, faulty software or hard drive failure. PowerQuest's Drive Image 7 provides a complete backup solution, saving you hours of frustration when inevitable failures happen. With your operating system, programs and settings as part of one backup file, you can have your computer up and running again in a matter of minutes.
Drive Image 7, the premier backup solution, is a fast, inexpensive, and complete hard drive imaging solution. Unlike file-by-file copying utilities, Drive Image 7 uses SmartSector imaging to create an exact image of a hard drive or partition where your operating system, applications and data resides.
With Drive Image 7, you can create and restore a compressed image file of an entire hard disk or individual partitions of a hard drive. Because Drive Image uses SmartSector imaging, your Windows optimizations are preserved when you restore an image.
Drive Image 7 runs on Windows XP Home and Professional, as well as Windows 2000 Professional Desktop Version.
Drive Image 2002 is included for users of Windows 95c, 98, ME and NT 4.0 Workstation. The purchase price includes both products.
Purchase your copy of Drive Image 7 for total computer protection and peace of mind.
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent backup software,
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This review is from: Powerquest Drive Image 7 (CD-ROM)
This is about the 4th version of Drive Image that I've run over the last few years and it is easily the most impressive.I upgraded from Drive Image 5 to DI 7 a few weeks ago and have been steadily wowed by the new version. Backups I've made with this software have now saved me twice -- once when I got a little too zealous with some file cleanup efforts, and once when an major software update failed in the middle. In both cases, I simply restored my previously saved backup image and within minutes everything was fine again. The single most important new feature is the ability to backup and restore while XP is active so you have easy access to network drives, USB drives, SCSI drives, full DMA support, etc -- all items that used to be problematic when backing up under DOS in previous versions. The DMA support (under Windows) and the new version boosted my backup speeds from one hard drive to another from 140MB/min to about 750MB/min. It's astonishing -- a 4 gigabyte backup takes 3 minutes on my 1.7ghz P4 machine with 2 IDE hard drives! DI7 now has the ultimate backup feature that I've been lusting after for many years -- unattended scheduling of backups. Previous versions allowed for backups to be scheduled but they had to be done when Windows wasn't active, or they couldn't include the system drive. Both restrictions are gone with this version -- simply set up a backup schedule and the Drive Image service will "wake up" and perform your backup with the OS active, whether you are logged in or not. All you have to do is clear off some hard drive space on another drive, sit back, and your drive will just automatically back itself up! Fabulous! Some of the other posters have touched on the downsides to the software -- DI is sensitive to the type of drives you are using -- it has limits with size and type (no Serial ATA yet, according to another poster). Previous versions were limited to 120GB drives, this one is limited to 160GB drives (I believe). Plenty big enough for me but it's something to be aware of. I was a little surprised initially when I went to restore my backed up system drive because I had to restart the system and boot off the DI 7 CD -- but this makes sense as you wouldn't want to wipe out the disk image of your currently running system drive. That would be a bit like sawing off the tree limb that you're standing on -- it's hard to fault PowerQuest for this. I also encountered a minor bug when backing up a drive to a CD after turning on the "maximum compression" setting -- it got to the final stages of burning the CD and then reported that an "unknown exception" had occurred. The problem vanished when I repeated this at the "default compression" setting. I highly recommend this software. This has been the most exciting software upgrade for me for the last year -- way to go PowerQuest!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
This is Beta software,
By A Customer
This review is from: Powerquest Drive Image 7 (CD-ROM)
PowerQuest DriveImage 2000 was a decent disk image backup program. It helped me recover from crashes several times, and I was able to clone my boot drive on a new computer with it. Also, the file editor allows you to pick out individual files to recover--great if you accidentally delete something. Given the usefulness of its predecessor, I had high hopes for version 7.0. Regrettably, DI 7.0 is not a reliable product. It has some very nice features, such as (allegedly) better Windows integration than the previous version, but it seems more than a bit buggy. First of all, DI 7 _does_ work on 2 of the 3 PCs I "administer" at my home. One of these is an older P3 box with a couple of IDE drives, the other is a Shuttle with a P4 Celeron and 1 100G SATA drive. However, DI does _not_ work on my main PC--a 2400mhz P4 with 2 SATA drives and 2 IDE drives. The problem is that DI refuses to recognize my boot drive--the one I really need to back up. I've corresponded with PowerQuest about this, and all they would say is that they do not support SATA and cannot say when or if they ever will. There are some other issues--the V2i service complains about "missing" disks when Windows starts up, and the GUI windows behave strangely, making the product difficult to use. I really wish PQ would get their act together--this _could_ be a really good backup option. I would expect defects like this in beta software--it's not right to release it in this condition, and provide no recourse for customers. As another reviewer noted, PQ does not have a "satisfaction guaranteed or your money back" policy--it's more like "We've got your money, so sod off!" Caveat emptor.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Drive Image 7 puts Ghost to Shame,
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This review is from: Powerquest Drive Image 7 (CD-ROM)
I've used Norton Ghost PE for several years on a Win 2k system. I can never be sure if I have a good Ghost backup or not. Often, I've had to rebuild my system from scratch after a disk crash when I discovered my Ghost backup was corrupted.Overall, I've been very pleased with Drive Image 7. It makes a perfect backup of Windows 2k when Windows is running. Each time I've needed to restore, it has worked flawlessly. I am backing up to an external USB drive. When restoring, Drive Image 7 has no difficulty recognizing and restoring from the USB hard drive. The negatives: 2) It could just be my setup, but when booting from the Drive Image disk I am unable to see any other PC's on my local network. I've not spent much time troubleshooting this aspect, but from my limited experience so far, networking after bootup from the Drive Image CD will not work. However, if you want to backup your data to a locally connected hard drive I don't think you can beat this software. Hopefully future releases will fix the DVD and networking problems. When these problems are fixed, I don't think you could find a better solution to automated backups than Drive Image 7.
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