DriveImage 7

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Martin Racette

Hi,

I have been using DriveImage 2002 (6.x) for a while now, and I would like to
upgrade it to the latest version, but I read many adverse review and I would
like to find out what exactly is going on with this program

Or if you have any suggestion for another one that would do the same thing

BTW. I'm running XP Pro and Home, and I need it to be able to use network
connections

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
Drive Image 7 does "Hot" imaging, while Windows is active.
It is dependant on the Microsoft .Net Framework software.
For recovery, you have to boot the CD-ROM to access the
program. No DOS-mode is included; A 7.0 purchase will
include 6.0 for any DOS boot type of imaging.
Personally, I am staying with 6.0. I've read more than a few
postings and tech-support requests giving it a "Thumbs down"
rating. Several software review sites have also recommended
that Drive Image 7 isn't a good product. However, a number
of frequent posters here have had positive things to say about
it.
Drive Image is now a Symantec product.
Best advice, download a Trial if available and see if it meets
your needs.
 
R. McCarty said:
Drive Image 7 does "Hot" imaging, while Windows is active.
It is dependant on the Microsoft .Net Framework software.
For recovery, you have to boot the CD-ROM to access the
program. No DOS-mode is included; A 7.0 purchase will
include 6.0 for any DOS boot type of imaging.
Personally, I am staying with 6.0. I've read more than a few
postings and tech-support requests giving it a "Thumbs down"
rating. Several software review sites have also recommended
that Drive Image 7 isn't a good product. However, a number
of frequent posters here have had positive things to say about
it.
Drive Image is now a Symantec product.
Best advice, download a Trial if available and see if it meets
your needs.
Click to expand...

I use DI7 and it works flawlessly. The only time I've ever had an issue
wasn't the fault of the software - it turned out that the drive I was
attempting to restore the image to was failing. I have never had a problem
since.
 
Hi,

I have been using DriveImage 2002 (6.x) for a while now, and I would like to
upgrade it to the latest version, but I read many adverse review and I would
like to find out what exactly is going on with this program

Or if you have any suggestion for another one that would do the same thing

BTW. I'm running XP Pro and Home, and I need it to be able to use network
connections
Click to expand...

As you've been told, DI along with other Powerquest software offerings
has been purchased by Symantec. Drive Image 7 will not work unless
the MS Net Framework is installed, although the package also includes
Drive Image 2002.

You can either try Ghost 2003 - also from Symantec, or True Image 7
from Acronis. www.acronis.com

I have used True Image and was impressed with it. It was even able to
create an image of my hard drive and copy it to my external USB 2.0
hard drive while it was in DOS mode.
 
Opinion! I use it and like it. No problems recorded or observed.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
I have been trying to decided between Ghost 2003, Drive Image and True
Image. In reading the online manual for True Image, it only appeared to
give a choice of FAT16 or FAT32 when it came to reformatting the hard drive
before loading the image. Is NTSF also an option?
 
I have not used Drive Image, but I have used GHOST and TrueImage. Both
work, but I find TrueImage easier to use, since it runs from within windows
for saving. For restoring, Trueimage runs from a bootable CD that it makes
for you. It can also make a bootable floppy set, but that is getting to be
a large pile of floppies. TrueImage treats external USB and firewire disks
equally with internal hard disks. GHOST 2003 has more limited USB and
firewire capabilities. TrueImage works with serial ATA disks (SATA/150),
whereas GHOST does not officially support them. I have not tried to make
partitions with TrueImage, although it does claim to do that, at least for
FAT32 and FAT16. Instead, I would use the XP recovery console, run from the
XP CDROM, to do that. Or, if I bought a new disk, I would use the disk
preparation software that comes with most retails boxed disks, such as
Seatools, MaxBlast, etc. However, I can say that TrueImage does work with
NTFS disks.
 
I use DI 7 and it seems to work fine. I say "seems" because I've never had
to use the image to restore errors on my hard drive. I have a USB 2.0
external hard drive that's 40 GB. I keep 2 images on it. I overwrite the
oldest so I always have the 2 latest images available. So far I've been
able to correct software problems using GoBack and haven't had to use DI 7.

I have checked it out to insure I can boot to the DI 7 CD and access my
external hard drive that way. It does work so I could restore my hard drive
data even if I couldn't access the hard drive due to a software error.
(obviously if I had a hardware failure on my hard drive I'd be screwed).
But I could replace it and mirror image the data back on to the new drive.
 
I have been trying to decide between Ghost 2003, Drive Image and True
Image. In reading the online manual for True Image, it only appeared to
give a choice of FAT16 or FAT32 when it came to reformatting the hard drive
before loading the image. Is NTSF also an option?
 
If you have SATA hard drives, you also need to have
a setup diskette with the necessary drivers and oem*.txt file on hand to
restore the boot drive with DI7,
and also reboot with the CD in its drive.
 
Any version of DriveImage, either 5, 2002, and 7
seem to me to be a better choice.

With 5 or 2002 (which seem to be the same),
one cannot save the boot disk from within Windows,
but the wheb launched from within Windows
the compute reboots, the disk image is saved,
and then the computer reboots into Windows.

With a scheduler, such as is included with Windows XP Pro,
this can be automated to run any time of day or night.
One only has to make sure the destination HD is not
too defragmented. But it is easy with a simple *.CMD file
to run defrag, then Drive Image with the proper settings.

On the other hand DI7 can be set to run automatically with it's
own scheduler.
 
I have been trying to decide between Ghost 2003, Drive Image and True
Image. In reading the online manual for True Image, it only appeared to
give a choice of FAT16 or FAT32 when it came to reformatting the hard drive
before loading the image. Is NTSF also an option?
Click to expand...

Although the wording in the example says FAT-16 or FAT-32, the picture
examples clearly show NTFS being used as the file system when creating
new partitions. The manual is not very clear on several things.

It's probably best to send an E-Mail message to their tech support and
ask the same question before you decide. I like True Image because it
supports external devices whereas Ghost 2003 has problems with USB
2.0. Drive Image 7 supposedly supports USB 2.0 devices but I don't
like having to depend on the MS net framework to run the program.

Remember, Drive Image along with other Powerquest programs has been
purchased by Symantec. (maker of Ghost)
 
If I have a SATA, but, it's not the boot drive do I still need this ?

I'm considering getting myself a 200+Gb SATA drive for all my data, and I would
keep the smaller and quite adequate IDE as my boot drive

--
Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
The on-line manual for TrueImage is a bit out of date. Here is what Acronis
support says about verions 7 of TrueImage:

"Yes, you can create NTFS partitions using Acronis True Image 7.0 (also
Linux ext2/ext3, ReiserFS and Linux swap).

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Sincerely yours,
Dennis Dementiev

Acronis, Inc.
395 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213
South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
http://www.acronis.com
"
 

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