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Summary: Not as good as I thought, but not bad.
Review: I have used the PowerQuest program PartitionMagic for years, and I expected more from DriveImage. Backing up the system partition cannot be done from within windows; I expected that. The program, however was not able to reboot the computer, and run the operation from DOS! PartitionMagic does that so nicely. On a Win2000 notebook I had to startup with the boot disk (that DriveImage makes) and it could not create a new partition to hold the backup image. I had to boot with PartitionMagic to create the backup partition and then with DriveImage to do the backup. Running the backup was very smooth; however, setting the destination for the backup was a hassle. It defaulted to the floppy (come on!) and does not use drive letters. I had to pick the cryptic name "Disk1\Part2" (Disk1, partition 2). After the backup: I was unable to open the Image with the Image explorer. Win98SE and WinME went the same (could not reboot the system to do a boot partition backup);however, I could read and copy the backup files. I have not restored a disk from its backup yet. About the DOS backup: the specifications say that it can backup to a network drive or a CD-R. That is only if DOS drivers are available for the interface. I could not get my PCMCIA network card to work from DOS. :( Some CD-R drives are not supported. It does not look good when the web site (PowerQuest), suggests that you can use the 30 money back guarenttee if you have problems. It does look like it will do what I need it to do, just be careful.
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Summary: Works great for me
Review: I installed Drive Image 2002 and backed up my C:/ and replaced a couple of individual files with absolutely no problem and I am running Windows XP. Drive Image 2002 worked with my new Hi Val CD-R and compressed 7 gig to four CD-R's. I see all of the bad reviews but this product has worked GREAT for me.
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Summary: Won't do the simplist things
Review: I purchased DriveImage2000 simply so that I could copy my C: drive to my backup D: drive, which is nearly double the size of my C: drive. After one backup was done, it won't let me do another backup because it says my D: drive doesn't have enough space. It doesn't give the user the simple option of selecting whether the destination drive/media should be overwritten or not. Thus, if you want to do a backup, you MUST have completely blank media, or you must erase your destination media before you attempt to do any backup. Sorry folks, but I don't think I'm going to install a blank hard drive, or manually erase my existing backup hard drive every time (daily) I want to do a new backup. Their advertising on the box says, "You can schedule your hard drive to be automatically backed up daily, weekly, or monthly." What a bunch of bunk! That simply is UNTRUE unless your backup hard drive is many, many times larger than the drive to be backed up, or unless you manually erase everything that's on the backup hard drive each time a backup is done. If you do that, then why backup at all!? This software is worthless, and it's advertising is very misleading. It has a great number of limitations and one does not know the limitations until it is too late; (until after one has paid for the software and has broken the seal on the package).
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Summary: Too many error messages. No product support
Review: I purchased this product about a week ago and had to return it. First of all the company wants to charge me... to talk to tech support regarding several error messages that I was getting.... P>I disabled "Norton Anti Virus" and "GoBack" and still get an error message. I finally e-mailed their tech support, and they indicated to me that I need to contact Compaq to help me disable some softwares in the BIOS.Well folks, this is supposedly an easy software to deal with. Guess what...it is not. You can't back up to an external FireWire or USB drive and if you want to back up a 20 gig drive you'll need about 35 CD-R/W disks. What if my whole hard drive freezes or crashes, what good does it do me to do an image on that same drive. ...
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Summary: The Ultimate Personal Drive Imaging and Back up Utility!!!
Review: I tried Norton Ghost 2002 and it's a nightmare. I have a Windows 2000 environment. I wanted to be able to save a image file to a network drive. Fisrt, it took me hours to make the Ghost boot disk with IBM token ring pc card driver. Then, it turned out that Ghost can't just save a image file. It can only clone a drive, which means it would use my whole 60GB disk just to back up my 6GB disk! Finally, the long-waited Drive Image 2002 is out. I just used its wizard to create a virtual boot disk with NIC driver (friendly and easy process compare to Ghost's DOS clumsy interfacy) and then went through another wizard to make back up image. In a couple hours, I've backed up my desktop and laptop hard disks to my server. No sweat! Plus, I used the drive copy option to upgrade my desktop hard drive from 6GB to 40GB in an hour! Ghost is really just a ghost now.
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Summary: Mad, Mad, Mad
Review: I tried to do a disk copy from a larger to smaller drive. It said it had to re-partition the source drive first, so I let it, thinking that if there is a problem, there must be a way to reset the change. How wrong I was. The process terminated, apparently because the destination drive was not formatted. Anyway, when I tried to re-boot to windows from the original dirve, it gave me a "paging" error and could not boot into windows. Searching the knowledge-base, I used wregfix.exe to try to fix. Now the drive isn't recognizable even from a Win98 floppy boot disk. I wish I can "talk" to support, but I'm not willing to spend $30 per incident (mad as hell) for a problem caused by the product and the maker isn't willing to stand by it. I returning it. BTW, I'm a highly skilled software engineer usually pretty good at solving problems.
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Summary: Drive Image 2002 doesn't work on Win XP
Review: I tried to use Drive Image with Windows XP. I couldn't burn CDs, and it didn't recognize an external USB hard drive. I guess it's useful only on a partition on the hard drive. I wanted a drive image in case the hard drive failed or was corrupted. Now I'm stick with software that doesn't work. Don't buy Drive Image 2002 for use on Win XP
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: I used Drive Image 2002 on my Windows 98 SE and My Windows
NT 4.0 System and found it to be flawless. Its easy to understand,its faster than previous versions, and it
gave me perfect backups of individual partitions and files. I am a relativly novice computer user amd it has solved all of my problems. I don't use Norton tulities anymore--this is easier. If I have a problem, I simply restore my good copy rather than go through the hocus-pocus that Norton requires. I love it!
I do wish they had someone to talk to--No telephone support.
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Summary: Frustrating
Review: I was excited about this program. However, after installing it I got an error 2103-could not partition my hard drive, rendering it unusable. I went to the powerquest website and did everything they said. Still get the error. The problem is that it will cost me $30 to get phone tech help and I will not do that. I guess I am old fashioned, I expect that after laying down money for a product it should work right out of the box. Another problem-I can't email a tech report-no serial number came with the program. It is supposed to be on the cd jacket, but my cd did not come in a jacket, just a paper sleeve. So, in the end, I spent a beautiful early August Saturday scan disking, chkdsking and researching a frustrating web site. A waste of money and time. No more Powerquest products for me!
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Summary: Now I have to pay AGAIN to get any help.
Review: I was quite disappointed when I installed this product just to find out that it requires a reboot to start backing up to my second computer (I have two computers networked together). It then tries to start up the process in DOS. Why is that a problem? Well, I'm no computer wiz, but my network connection doesn't open until Windows XP has started on the computer. So, Drive Image pops up in DOS after the reboot and says it can't find the drive where I want to make my back-up. Of course it can't, it hasn't let Windows establish the connection yet. So, the program has been useless to me. My next step was to go to the Powerquest homepage to look for a FAQ that might help or maybe a help line. I found nothing obvious, and didn't really want to spend three hours looking through all the possible FAQ's and error messages. I just wanted to call somebody and see if there is a way around this problem...and there it was, a $30 fee to get live tech support to help solve what is probably a routine problem. I already paid for this program and it's useless without paying again! Or maybe I could hire my own computer wiz to make my simple consumer products work for me...right?
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