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Summary: Serious Bug in DriveImage version 5.01
Review: Drive Image 5.01 will not work properly with a number of CD writers that were supported by DriveImage 4.x. My HP9300i (a 10X writer) writes garbage. DriveImage 4.x works great. PowerQuest support indicates that several customers have reported this problem on several different CD writers. They indicate that version DriveImage 5.0 may work. As of 4/12/02, they have no fix.
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Summary: Excellent Excellent Excellent!
Review: Easy to use and understand. Does everything you need a partition restoration program to do. It achieved success where Norton Ghost 2002 failed miserably. I would recommend this product to anyone who wants to get their Windows (including XP), DOS, OS/2 or Linux operating systems back after a crash or installd on a new machine. Excellent product!
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Summary: This is a DOS application
Review: Even though Drive Image allows you to set up parameters in a Windows interface it is actually a DOS program, the disk image reboots in DOS mode and runs in DOS. Unfortunately if you want to create your disk image on a USB device, such as an external USB disk, The windows drive letter isn't known by DOS. So when Drive Image reboots you in DOS it fails. In my case it actually froze; so I had to manually reboot to get back to windows. Since this is a DOS application & there are a lot of removable USB based storage options available, this DOS based application is basically obsolete. Save your money , DOS is dead.
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Summary: Falls below expectations
Review: I installed Drive Image 5.0 on a Windows XP machine and upgraded from Powerquest's Web site. I followed the User Guide, which is somewhat vague and may be difficult to follow for the inexperienced user. After I used Drive Image to move all files to a new drive, the computer would not boot. I was wise enough to create the boot disk which allowed me to reactivate the original drive. After calls to tech support, which cost me several dollars, they were not able to help me make it work. This went on for about a month. They wrote up a trouble report for their Testing department. After another month, they finally said that they could not resolve the problem. Customer service agreed to refund the purchase price but not pay for shipping or my phone expenses. I think they would have a good product here but they are not fully ready for Win XP.
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Summary: Better than the rating suggests
Review: 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) is an old version the latest is DI 2002.
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Summary: Beware of CDRW Requirements!
Review: I purchased this item, and then found out that it does not support USB CDRWs. It requires the CDRWs to be accessible from DOS using a DOS driver, which most CDRW manufacturers do not have. I cannot comment on how good or bad the product is since I cannot image my system with the CDRW I have.... Just letting you know of this potential gotcha!
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Summary: Beware of CDRW Requirements!
Review: I purchased this item, and then found out that it does not support USB CDRWs. It requires the CDRWs to be accessible from DOS using a DOS driver, which most CDRW manufacturers do not have. I cannot comment on how good or bad the product is since I cannot image my system with the CDRW I have.... Just letting you know of this potential gotcha!
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: 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 6 hours to recover from the recovery program!
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Summary: My primary backup solution for years
Review: 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.
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Summary: Best Backup Software So Far
Review: 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.
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