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Summary: Great for W98SE, don't ask it to move an NTFS XP partition
Review: Do not use for Windows XP, Home or Pro. It works _GREAT_ in my experience for W98SE; excellent alternative to Norton Ghost for partition image management / archival & partition management. I don't know if it can handle MS-setup dual-boot arrangements (i.e. XP / W98SE boot choice), but I do know it got stuck looking for an NT operating system in the closing steps of moving my XP Pro's NTFS partition in the disk so I could expand it enough to defrag it (and then back up its image via DriveWorks). De-selecting some options I hadn't been aware of may have helped, I don't know. I had to reboot, and my XP Pro / W98SE (for backup duty) dual-boot machine became an unbootable steel-cased doorstop. I didn't lose any files though, and after reinstalling XP Pro & all my software, I am now able to write this while finding a replacement for this software. It's been _EXCELLENT_ for W98SE use for me for a couple years now, but it could _Not_ handle moving an XP-loaded NTFS partition at least with the default option selections.
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Summary: Great for W98SE, don't ask it to move an NTFS XP partition
Review: Do not use for Windows XP, Home or Pro. It works _GREAT_ in my experience for W98SE; excellent alternative to Norton Ghost for partition image management / archival & partition management. I don't know if it can handle MS-setup dual-boot arrangements (i.e. XP / W98SE boot choice), but I do know it got stuck looking for an NT operating system in the closing steps of moving my XP Pro's NTFS partition in the disk so I could expand it enough to defrag it (and then back up its image via DriveWorks). De-selecting some options I hadn't been aware of may have helped, I don't know. I had to reboot, and my XP Pro / W98SE (for backup duty) dual-boot machine became an unbootable steel-cased doorstop. I didn't lose any files though, and after reinstalling XP Pro & all my software, I am now able to write this while finding a replacement for this software. It's been _EXCELLENT_ for W98SE use for me for a couple years now, but it could _Not_ handle moving an XP-loaded NTFS partition at least with the default option selections.
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Summary: Great for W98SE, don't ask it to move an NTFS XP partition
Review: Do not use for Windows XP, Home or Pro. It works _GREAT_ in my experience for W98SE; excellent alternative to Norton Ghost for partition image management / archival & partition management. I don't know if it can handle MS-setup dual-boot arrangements (i.e. XP / W98SE boot choice), but I do know it got stuck looking for an NT operating system in the closing steps of moving my XP Pro's NTFS partition in the disk so I could expand it enough to defrag it (and then back up its image via DriveWorks). De-selecting some options I hadn't been aware of may have helped, I don't know. I had to reboot, and my XP Pro / W98SE (for backup duty) dual-boot machine became an unbootable steel-cased doorstop. I didn't lose any files though, and after reinstalling XP Pro & all my software, I am now able to write this while finding a replacement for this software. It's been _EXCELLENT_ for W98SE use for me for a couple years now, but it could _Not_ handle moving an XP-loaded NTFS partition at least with the default option selections.
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Summary: Horrible Experience with Drive Works
Review: I have just had a horrific experience with your product DriveWorks. I run Windows 2000 and had decided that I needed a good program to back up my whole harddrive in the event of a crash. I found DriveWorks. My problem started when I realized (after purchase) that nothing would load on my computer except AutoSave, so I installed it. In fact I installed and uninstalled it three times because everytime I installed it, it crashed my computer right before it would end the booting up process. I thought that this program was not the main reason I purchased the whole thing so I could live with it not working. Since I was running Win2000 the instructions said the other programs would only work from the CD, so I rebooted with the floppy and went to the CD to try to run Image Commander to backup my harddrive. (Then I read that it would not backup straight to CD. Your box says, "This image is a compressed file that can be easily saved to a CD." I guess you just forgot to mention that you can only save it to CD AFTER you save it to a harddrive. What if you don't have enough space on your harddrive to put the backup file on???) After booting up with the CD it told me that the only way the program would backup FAT32 files was if it was installed on the harddrive, yet I couldn't install it because I was running Windows 2000. I was really beginning to believe I had purchased a joke. If only I had... When I purchased the program I had also been looking for a disk partiting program like Partition Magic. Since I didn't find it at Office Max I was glad when DriveWorks had Partition Commander. I proceeded to open that program... finally a program that I could open! I wished I hadn't been able to. While looking at the options, never giving any command to actually do changes... my WHOLE harddrive got instantly deleted!!! There was no "Are you sure?" "All your data will be deleted" warnings or anything like it. It was just gone! The very thing I had feared had just happened to me, but the worse thing was that it was at the hands of the program I had purchased to help me prepare for such a catastrophe! I can't tell you the anger I felt.
Buy at own risk!
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Summary: Driveworks is not that bad...
Review: If you use Win Nt, 2K, XP with NTFS partition, you better not to try this driveworks. I tried it on my workstation that has an Adaptec RAID and Win Nt on it, and it didn't work. But, this driveworks work fine on my laptop which has a Windows ME with FAT32 on it. I can resize the partition without destroying it, image the partition, and had succesfully restored the partition from that image. So my complains:
- VCom, please make this product works with RAID card and better handling with NTFS
- It took almost 2 hours to make an image of 4GB partition!! (on a pentium III 750Mhz.. bleh) Otherwise, this software might be worthful for anyone who use FAT/FAT32.
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Summary: Oh My [goodness!]
Review: The Same (VERY CLOSE) thing happened to ME. This is a joke it ruined my computer I acually broke a 69.95$ CD in half out of complete frustration. I'm sure there will be a few people in the future who simply and luckily performed a simple partition with no IMPORTANT info on thier drive, and give it credit BUT PLEASE !! anyone whom this also happened to, PLEASE WRITE EVEN A 10 letter review and tell people what you think OH [please]. All my digital family photos and video of my 10 month old twins gone because of a bad interface and programing FOR 70$ BLAH! The better business bureau will get a complaint from me
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Summary: Oh My [goodness!]
Review: The Same (VERY CLOSE) thing happened to ME. This is a joke it ruined my computer I acually broke a 69.95$ CD in half out of complete frustration. I'm sure there will be a few people in the future who simply and luckily performed a simple partition with no IMPORTANT info on thier drive, and give it credit BUT PLEASE !! anyone whom this also happened to, PLEASE WRITE EVEN A 10 letter review and tell people what you think OH [please]. All my digital family photos and video of my 10 month old twins gone because of a bad interface and programing FOR 70$ BLAH! The better business bureau will get a complaint from me
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Summary: My truth told , What a waste of 3 days and 70$. A disgrace
Review: Well here you have it, 3 Days of Frustration, failed solution after failed solution, and .... the death via slaying of a 70$ program. I purchased this say 4 months prior and from day one problems. To start with I have an All-in-Wonder Radeon video card, 200$+ , and I experienced a split screen problem with it no matter if you ran it from WINDOWS 2000 PRO or Booting from it. "The Manufacturers" web site stated that there was no fix for this problem. A split screen to me after spending 70 bucks was annoying but all together bearable and went on and partition my RAID array with it. Now Dec. 28,01 I purchased a WD 80 GIG HD, and 2 more 60 Gig Maxtors to backup my 52 Gigs of MP3's as the took 2 years to compile. To make a long story short I had Win 2000 on my RAID and needed to remove it, install on the 80 Gig, and move Win 2000 and set up a "0+1" Stripe plus Span on the RAID. Yada Yada and so on. This product has a built in recovery feature JUST in case a power failure occurs during an operation. No the power never went out, Just the 70$ CD costing no more than .03 cents to V Com Oh and the 40$ profit , trust me, no research and development went on here. I backed up my windows directory and partition my RAID and my new 80 Gig and ended up in a "insert recovery disk 2 .....blah blah you are now safe to restart" cycle for an hour. Ok I could at this point go on for hours cursing, bottom line I , an intelligent (no arrogance intended) person had NO, NONE, NADA, Not a choice but toto reformat everything, fight with WIN 2000 to recognize my RAID as C:......... again BLAH The interface had promise but the code hade no intention on making the previous work. A damned shame V Com DO NOT. PLEASE DO NOT. By this unless you love and I mean LOVE stress V Com should be ashamed
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