PowerQuest Backup Questions

[Cymbal Man Freq.]

I have a Dell Dimension 4300 to work on and it has 2 hard drives, with Win Me on
the first HDD and the dual booted Win XP on the 2nd HDD. They are connected to a
Promise ATA 100 Controller.
The first (60 GB) HDD has two partitions, FAT 32 for Win Me and the 2nd is NTFS
for Win XP backup; the 2nd (120 GB) HDD has 4 partitions, the first 3 of which
are NTFS and the last one is FAT 32 for Win Me backups.

On the Win Me side, I have Drive Image 2002, which I used to use before the dual
boot situation, but that takes 150 minutes minumum to do a backup of the Win Me
partition.

On the Win XP side, I have Drive Image 7, which I should use for JUST the Win XP
side. However, Drive Image 7 is SOOOO much faster backing up that I also backup
the Win Me side using Drive Image 7 from within Windows XP.
Is this wrong?
Is it OK?
How would I restore from DVD's properly?

I just got my internal DVD burner set up as a boot drive, but I have to go into
the BIOS first to disable the hard drive from the Boot Sequence. Then I get a
screen on the reboot to either boot from the hard drive or from the CD drive
(DVD Drive). [BTW, the Norton NSW 2005 AV CD asks for AV definitions on the A:\
drive...I'm not sure how that works, but I just found out about it last night]

I also copy the backup files to an external USB 2.0 hard drive, and I don't
believe Drive Image 2002 supports restoring from a USB 2.0 drive. This is
another reason why I prefer to backup using Drive Image 7 on this dual boot
machine.

Should backup file sizes for Win Me be 1.99GB and can I put more than one file
on a DVD (I'd probably have to copy the files to the HDD if a DVD restore is
required). Can backup files of 4.2GB be OK on the Win XP side or will other
programs belch that the file size is too big upon restoration. I'm not familiar
enough with restore procedures to understand the ins and outs completely.

 

[Glen]

I can answer much of your questions but regarding file sizes. Windows XP
ntfs witll work with with file sizes any size. I cant remember the limit but
big enough that it makes no difference. I have one Noton Ghost backup 25GB
although I normally split mine at 4.25 GB to fit on DVD ram. Most of you
question would be better answered by drive image (norton). Restoring from
DVD is no diferent than hard drive. Just point the program at the image and
it should find it and restore. Check the program can read the dvd from dos
before you need to use it for real.

Glen P

 

[Jonny]

Your questions are all strictly Powerquest DriveImage questions. None are
XP operating system related.

Dunno why you're using alternate onboard hard drive directory locations for
either DI version image backups. DI 2002 while run in Windows Millenium can
see NTFS for a target image location. Windows Millenium natively cannot,
and does not with DI2002 installed.

DI 2002 doesn't operate in the Windows Millenium environment while imaging
the Windows Millenium boot partition. This you FAILED to mention. Even so,
150 minutes may be excessive depending how much file data is on that
partition. Of which, you even failed to mention the partition size either.
Actually running DI 2002 in windows allows use of 32 bit access to the hard
drive if your windows is setup properly. This version of DI does not allow
imaging of the boot partition its located in while in windows. DI 7 does
while run in XP if NET framework is installed.

DI 2002 recovery runs in a pseudo dos environment for recovery of a windows
boot partition that is DI 2002 is normally located in. Unless USB drivers
are installed for that environment, DI 2002 cannot see any USB connected
devices. DI 7 recovery runs in a window PE environment that has some
windows driver assets like accessing USB or Firewire connected hard drives.

The size of the image files for storage on DVD depends on what method you're
using for storing such image files to DVD. Native ISO that any windows or
dos environment can see is limited to 2GB maximum for each file. That's two
files per DVD. For instance backup.pqi and backup.002 can be stored on the
DVD if neither exceed 2GB using the storage method previously mentioned.

I shy away from multiple media for image restoration including DVD media.
Don't trust it.
.............
Jonny

I have a Dell Dimension 4300 to work on and it has 2 hard drives, with Win
Me on
the first HDD and the dual booted Win XP on the 2nd HDD. They are
connected to a
Promise ATA 100 Controller.
The first (60 GB) HDD has two partitions, FAT 32 for Win Me and the 2nd is
NTFS
for Win XP backup; the 2nd (120 GB) HDD has 4 partitions, the first 3 of
which
are NTFS and the last one is FAT 32 for Win Me backups.

On the Win Me side, I have Drive Image 2002, which I used to use before
the dual
boot situation, but that takes 150 minutes minumum to do a backup of the
Win Me
partition.

On the Win XP side, I have Drive Image 7, which I should use for JUST the
Win XP
side. However, Drive Image 7 is SOOOO much faster backing up that I also
backup
the Win Me side using Drive Image 7 from within Windows XP.
Is this wrong?
Is it OK?
How would I restore from DVD's properly?

I just got my internal DVD burner set up as a boot drive, but I have to go
into
the BIOS first to disable the hard drive from the Boot Sequence. Then I
get a
screen on the reboot to either boot from the hard drive or from the CD
drive
(DVD Drive). [BTW, the Norton NSW 2005 AV CD asks for AV definitions on
the A:\
drive...I'm not sure how that works, but I just found out about it last
night]

I also copy the backup files to an external USB 2.0 hard drive, and I
don't
believe Drive Image 2002 supports restoring from a USB 2.0 drive. This is
another reason why I prefer to backup using Drive Image 7 on this dual
boot
machine.

Should backup file sizes for Win Me be 1.99GB and can I put more than one
file
on a DVD (I'd probably have to copy the files to the HDD if a DVD restore
is
required). Can backup files of 4.2GB be OK on the Win XP side or will
other
programs belch that the file size is too big upon restoration. I'm not
familiar
enough with restore procedures to understand the ins and outs completely.