powerquest drive image 2002 backup does not start after reboot

[Mad Scientist Jr]

I am running a fresh install of Win XP with svc pack 1. I just
installed Powerquest drive image 2002 and attempted repeatedly to back
up my system to CD-RW. I select the hard drive to backup and select my
CD-RW as the destination drive and tell it to start operation now, and
the program reboots the machine to complete the operation. However,
upon startup nothing happens. Any idea? Is 2002 now obsolete with the
XP service packs?

 

[Bill Crocker]

I think you need to update Drive Image.

Note: Symantec bought Drive Image, from PowerQuest, and renamed it Norton
Ghost v 9.0.

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

Bill Crocker

 

[Don MI]

I am running a fresh install of Win XP with svc pack 1. I just
installed Powerquest drive image 2002 and attempted repeatedly to back
up my system to CD-RW. I select the hard drive to backup and select my
CD-RW as the destination drive and tell it to start operation now, and
the program reboots the machine to complete the operation. However,
upon startup nothing happens. Any idea? Is 2002 now obsolete with the
XP service packs?

PowerQuest 2002 reboots your system to a DOS version to do the image. From
your problem description, it is possible that Drive Image 2002 does not
recognize your drive as supported drive. Or, it is possible that if you
are using CD-RW media it is possible that the CD is not un-used or not
erased in a manner compatible with Drive Image 2002.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 has nothing, repeat nothing, to do with your
problem. When Drive Image 2002 reboots to Chandra {sp} DOS to due the
image, your hard drive and the operating system on your hard drive is not a
factor. That is you are in a DOS version what does not "care" what is on
your hard drive.

Don

 

[Richard Urban]

That is one of the reasons that PowerQuest came out with Drive Image 7.
Version 2002 had reboot problems and was not entirely reliable. Now
PowerQuest is part of Symantec and Drive Image 7 has been integrated into
Ghost 9.0. Both of the newer products will image the Windows partition from
within windows - no rebooting is necessary. Additionally, both of the newer
products require that you reboot and start the "recovery" process from the
program CD.

You can still use Drive Image 2002 without any problems if you create the 2
floppy boot up set and run Drive Image (create and recover) from there. It
works fine!

--

Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Mad Scientist Jr]

hi and thanks for your reply.

the thing is, pqdi 2002 *used to* work on my xp system.

recently my hard drive died, so i had to rebuild the entire system.

i did a fresh install of xp, and got all the updates,

and installed pqdi 2002, and am now trying to back up the system

(so i have a backup of a fresh install of xp before i load it up with apps)

and am getting this problem. i never had this issue before.

 

[CS]

I am running a fresh install of Win XP with svc pack 1. I just
installed Powerquest drive image 2002 and attempted repeatedly to back
up my system to CD-RW. I select the hard drive to backup and select my
CD-RW as the destination drive and tell it to start operation now, and
the program reboots the machine to complete the operation. However,
upon startup nothing happens. Any idea? Is 2002 now obsolete with the
XP service packs?

hi and thanks for your reply.
the thing is, pqdi 2002 *used to* work on my xp system.
recently my hard drive died, so i had to rebuild the entire system.
i did a fresh install of xp, and got all the updates,
and installed pqdi 2002, and am now trying to back up the system
(so i have a backup of a fresh install of xp before i load it up with apps)
and am getting this problem. i never had this issue before.

You may have to edit your "virtual" boot disk in order for it to be
able to recognize and use your CDRW drive when it boots the machine to
make the image(s). ALSO - DI2002 will not work properly if you use
the "quick erase" feature to wipe your CDRW disks. You must use the
slow erase method or "full erase".

It's possible that under your old setup the virtual boot was working
OK and would proceed to copy the image to the CDRW drive. When you
reinstalled DI2002 to the new HDD, that information either may not be
correct or was never copied to the virtual boot disk option.

Personally, (and this is just me) I would not use DI2002 in that
manner. I would create the two boot disk set (with Caldera DOS on
them) and use that method to backup the HDD. I have found (again this
is just me) that DI2002 does not work reliably to copy and restore
from CDRW or CDR disks.

 

[Lou]

My experience with Drive Image 2002

Initially installed on Windows XP SP1. I was never successful in
creating an image to CD-R media in CD/RW drive. Drive image booted to
Dos, filled the 1st CD then failed almost every time when closing the
media with error code 1805 (out of space). Sometimes it failed when
closing the 2nd or 3rd media. PowerQuest site at the time stated it
was a problem with XP SP1. Found another alternative to create images
(later)..

Recently installed XP SP2 on 5 systems. (2 Dell desktop, 1 Dell
laptop, 1 HP desktop, and one local manufacturer). Drive Image 2002
successfully creates and restores images to CD-R media on 4 of the 5
systems. The HP systems fails when closing the media.

Created images from within Windows (which boots DOS) and from Dos
floppies created using Drive Image. Never had to modifiy the Dos boot
disk nor the Drive Image VFD file to boot Dos.

My Alternative solution with Drive Image. I have a home network of 1
XP system and 2 Windows 98. I use Drive image to create images of one
computer on another computer via the network. This requres a
modification of the Drive Image VFD file in XP and a Dos command batch
file on Windows 98. The modification is the loading of the Dos TCPIP
stack and the NET commands needed to establish network connections
between a Dos system and a Windows XP or 98 syste. The same
modification is needed on the Dos bootable floppies needed to restore
a system in case of an HDD failure.

Larry

 

[Mad Scientist Jr]

Thanks to everyone for the advice.
I will try the floppy disk boot method.
(btw, do newer versions support booting from compact flash?)
This is the method I used with PQDI 2 back when I was running 98 and
it worked fine. Will it work with my CD-R from floppy? I hope so...
It's an older Plextor from 2001 or so.

 

[CS]

Thanks to everyone for the advice.
I will try the floppy disk boot method.
(btw, do newer versions support booting from compact flash?)
This is the method I used with PQDI 2 back when I was running 98 and
it worked fine. Will it work with my CD-R from floppy? I hope so...
It's an older Plextor from 2001 or so.

It'll work from compact flash provided your motherboard BIOS can be
set to boot from an external USB device.