Power Quest and Drive Image 2002

Im like most people , I hate to lose data to a crash

Today I wanted to see what Drive Image would do for my XP Home System

Im using 10 gig of space ( "C") of an 80 gig HD/ Windows XP Home system ( NTFS)


I just did a Drive Image backup today on my single 80 gig HD

Drive Image , did everything it was supposed to and quick

It created a ( new) 20 gig partition , it then imaged my "C" drive Master over to the new partition

All this on the same HD ,

Now Im able to restore in minutes

Drive Image 2002 works great

John Piercy

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Must agree with you the first time is a nervous one. :D
I now use PQdrive image 2002. Love it and with my cdrw, I just for the heck of it used DI and made cdr backup of my c:\ drive. Nti until now was the champ, but no longer. That was the fastest and easiest I ever did that. All the capabilities that folks listed are there and seem easier to use than in the older version of Ghost I have. Heck, even now have a DI 2002 boot cd.
So, to put things back the way they should be, boot to the DI bootdisk, make sure the first cd is in the cdrom, browse and select that as the source and select C: [1st partition of the 1st hdd] as the restore to place. Let it overright everything and 6 cds later, 6.4GB compressed, I was up and running.
Worth it, you bet. Might look into the new version of Ghost, but I hate the idea of typing in the registration number everytime I want to use it though :(

OOPS: Solution: Drive Image 2002 Instructional Videos Just remembered that link. :rolleyes:

Report_2:
Thanks for your input also. I was aware of that feature but I am 'kinda' new at this kind of endeavor. You know, like the first time doing this!!

Well, I got Drive Image 2002 and I think I may have messed up already. Ain't really hard for me to do with a computer.
All of this appeared to have run in DOS. First, I was letting one of the wizards(the first one)burn a backup of my present hard drive. After about 11 minutes, I got an error
#1805 which definition told me "ran of out of space in the partition where my image was being written to". (Would that have involved the lack of spanning?) I am sitting watching the progress and I was not asked to put in another CDR--just the error. I then went to the next wizard--Setup Wizard--and I think this is where I may have erred. A lot of info is thrown at me on the screen about hard drive size and the creation of a partition. Sooo I started the wizard and noticed that it would take about 45 minutes so I went into the yard and when I came back my desktop was showing and I have to assume the PC re-booted.
I checked the property for the hard drive and see that I have about the same Used Space but the Free Space is about 7MBs less than what I previously had!!!! And the Capacity is about 3 MBs less than what I previously had.
The "PIE" shows the following(my HDD is only 13.2GBs):
Used Space 3.76GB
Free Space 3.37GB
Capacity 7.13GB(this is the total of the other 2 figures and is almost 6Gb LESS than my HD size.)
Not sure what all this means but I sure hope it has a good meaning to you--one that will enable you to help me. A reminder for you--I only have one HD and it is a 13.2GB. I hope that I have written this in a constructive manner and that you are able to follow it.

I thought about this today when I was out of town---my free space is NOW about half the size it WAS BEFORE I used Drive Image. Is this because I may truly have a backup of my hard drive that was performed by Drive Image on my ONE HDD? I can only see drive C and if Drive Image partitioned my HDD wouldn't I be able to see a drive D? Or maybe Drive C IS C and D and shown only as a drive C. (Am I lost in this description or just maybe this is making some sense to you!!) I have c/p a part of my last post for you to read again:

I checked the property for the hard drive and see that I have about the same Used Space but the Free Space is about 7MBs less than what I previously had!!!! And the Capacity is almost 3MBs less than what I previously had.
The "PIE"(in property) shows the following(my HDD is only 13.2GBs):
Used Space 3.75GB
Free Space 3.37GB
Capacity 7.14GB(this is the total of the other 2 figures and is almost 6Gb LESS than my HD size.)
Not sure what all this means but I sure hope it has a good meaning to you--one that will enable you to help me.

How can I "prove" what is on my HDD? I wonder what would happen IF I were to have Drive Image burn a backup of my HDD!? Would I get images ONLY of my phantom partition or ??
I really want to use Drive Image because it appears to be the SIMPLEST software available for the purposes we need.
Any and all, please wade in on this because I need an answer or your thoughts.
Train--I saw your post AFTER Report-2. I like your results and they are what I have thought DI would do all along. I don't know why I did not get email about your post--(I did on Report-2) or for johnpiercy. His results are what I want also.

Haven't seen any answer(s) yet. ^^

On what happened to you while trying to burn an image to cd-r... If your cdrw drive is set in bios for auto detection then drive image will interpret it (or use it) as a hard drive. And as a hard drive it thinks you just ran out of space, and since hard drives can't be expanded on the fly it doesn't ask for anything else, it just fails. You should have your bios setting such that where the cdrw is (primary/secondary, master/slave) is set to either CDROM or NONE. Then Drive image will ask for additional cd-rs when it fills one.

As for the space on your drive... The setup wizard does create an additional partition if you only have one (and one drive). It sounds like it may have gone ahead and done that. It also sounds like you took what ever defaults (size, etc) that it offered. One of the options was whether the partition created would be visible (ie. so a drive letter gets assigned) or not. By default it is not visible. I don't remember off hand if Drive Image has an option to back after the fact and make the partition it created visible (Train or someone may know). If not, you can use something like Partition Magic or such (if you have it) to make the partition visible.

If you start up Drive Image, and go to the main screen, you can click on "Disk Operations", and a screen will pop up showing all your existing partitions, even any that are hidden from Windows. It will also tell you how much used and empty space is on each partition. I sometimes use that screen just to check how much free space is on my Linux partition, because Windows can't see the Linux format.

DrMDJ
Is right on the Bios setting. Mine is set to cdrom and it burns like mad. 1GB to a cdr.
Keep at it and I suggest reading what each applette has to offer real close the first few times.
You will get the hang of it. ;)

DrMDJ/Gerdog/Train:
ALRIGHT!!!! What I have just read makes sense; sense that I did not have before or least I had not "put it together:" correctly. I will have to study the BIOS question in more depth. Under what "heading" will I find the cd-rw question. Do I have a choice of accepting NONE? I am assuming that NONE is NOT the chosen answer there because of what happened to me and what the good Dr. said also.

Gerdog: That disk operations window tells me exactly what I was trying to describe 2-3 posts back when I listed the GBs listed in each category. I see Disk 1 and 12.14 GB under it and then (C) with 7.16 GB. Fate 32 under it and then Backup (*.) with 4.98 GB. Hidden File 32 under it. Of course, above that was some other info listed and at the end of those items of info was the words:
Primary and then logical under it.

Train: I knew that you were a strong believer/user of Ghost and for you to say that you are sold on DI helps me to feel like I have not totally wasted $$. I also liked what I saw in NTI Backup Now Deluxe; especially when I was able to download it for only $37.50 and still had 30 days to try it and get a refund, if I chose to. I did ask for the refund within that 30 days period in favor of DI.

BTW, because I DID NOT get a backup of my HDD BEFORE I did what I did when I first ran DI, I think I had better burn one NOW!! Right. I realize that should something hose my HDD before I get a good backup--I loose everything because everything is on my HDD

Well, after trying DI, I switched after about 6 months. Ok they got my money. But it still is a good program. Just DI is much smoother in operation.

BIOS
Boot to Bios and you should have a Boot Menu tab [or words to that effect].
arrow down to AtAPI cd-rom In the [ ] should be the word none . or you can select the specific cdrom device.
But, I have my cdrw selected as my FIRST boot device. Do not know if that is required though, it is just the way I have my mobo setup as I do make boot cds and use them.

Well, I just checked and found that my IBM Aptiva PC has listed under the heading of "System Information" the IDE Secondary Channel Master---CD-RW. That is what it should be--right? If that is right then something else must have happened that my first attempt at burning an image of my HDD failed before creating a partition on my one HDD for the backup. I know the CD-RW is jumpered to the Primary pins on the burner!!

My floppy comes first, CD-RW second and HDD third.

That should do it.
Just take it slow and easy the next time. What I do. Good luck this time.

I just put that first CD in my cd-rom--the one that I tried to burn BEFORE letting DI create a partition on my ONLY HDD and I took a look at the properties of the CD and I saw that 2.90MBs were burned and this was represented by two oddly named files. One file is named Bootcat.bin and is 2KB and the other file is named Bootimg.bin and is 2,880KB. There is no free space left on the CD and it is a 680MB CD!!
Does this meaning anything??

Thanks for that "take it slow and easy" advice Train. If anything, I sometimes think that I am perhaps a bit too cautious and that can cause mistakes also :p

Another edit: I have the latest IBM update for my BIOS just in case you need to know that.

I used List-FC and this is what I get for the first cd:


---------- c:\windows\desktop\folder.txt

Folder Contents Listed at 10-25-2002 8:49:28.08p


Directory of T:\

=============================================================
MS-DOS Name File Modification Win9x LFN
File & Type Size Date and Time (Long Name)
=============================================================

BOOTCAT BIN 2,048 10-04-02 3:20p BOOTCAT.BIN
BOOTIMG BIN 2,949,120 10-04-02 3:20p BOOTIMG.BIN
IMAGES <DIR> 10-04-02 3:20p IMAGES

=============================================================
- End of List -
_____________________________________________________________

List-FC for Windows 95/98 - Freeware by rmbox


Are you using cdr's or cdrw disks? I gave up on the rw's because of all the bad disks I was getting. Besides you need to format the darn things first. :( :mad: