anyone have experience with using powerquest drive image on xp?

Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

ALSO: Since my hard drive is already going bad, maybe it's too late
to use the Drive Image 7?

What does everyone think?

Thanks!

No, DI 2002 is a great program and works fine on XP Pro.

Good Luck.


JMB wrote:
Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

ALSO: Since my hard drive is already going bad, maybe it's too late
to use the Drive Image 7?

What does everyone think?

Thanks!

"JMB" wrote:
Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?


I've been having trouble making a bootable image of my HD,
and the email clowns at PowerQuest told me to try Drive Image
7.01 due to "improvements" over 7.0 . Well, 7.01 froze up my
system faster than 7.0 did. Then the phone tech reps said to use
Drive Image 2002. It wouldn't do a thing until I put both HDs on
the *same channel* as Master/Slave. (Apparently, PowerQuest
assumes all systems don't have enough IDE channels to put a HD
on its own dedicated channel.) But the resulting image still isn't
bootable. The "documentation" is a joke. Plan to spend a lot of
time on the phone and searching the web and cursing.

-\Stan/-

"Rock" non-sequetered:
No, DI 2002 is a great program and works fine on XP Pro.


He asked about DI 7.0, but moving right along...
Did you ever get an error message at the first bootup
of the resulting image:

"Windows could not start because the following file
is missing or corrupt:
Windows root\System32\hal.dll
Please re-install a copy of the above file."?

I just did, and it's driving me batty. The hal.dll file is
there, but WinXP doesn't like it for some reason.


-\Stan/-

On 17/11/2003 JMB wrote:

Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

ALSO: Since my hard drive is already going bad, maybe it's too late
to use the Drive Image 7?

What does everyone think?

Thanks!
_______________

Hi!
Why not use True Image from http://www.acronis.co.uk/index.asp?
It is best value for money.
--
Cheers,
Robert

I think Norton Ghost will also do what you want.


"JMB" wrote in message
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Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

ALSO: Since my hard drive is already going bad, maybe it's too late
to use the Drive Image 7?

What does everyone think?

Thanks!

"JMB" wrote:
Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending
a replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take
an image of the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it
to the new drive, with no need to reinstall anything.
Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

The simplest way usually is to use a simple disk copy utility from the
drive manufacturer. Many manufacturers have free software specifically
for your intended purpose -- such as Seagate's "Disk Wizard", Maxtor's
"MaxBlast", and WD's "Data Lifeguard Tools". If you don't get a floppy
disk with your new HD, you can download it from the manufacturer's
website. To use, it's as simple as plugging in both HD's, boot from the
floppy, copy one HD to the other, remove old HD, put new HD in its
place, and reboot.

Do *not* install the new HD first and try to format it with XP; just put
it in bare and boot the utility floppy. (Many people make this mistake,
which gives XP a chance to give the new HD a different drive letter,
which can screw things up.)

Do *not* leave the old HD installed as a slave when you first boot the
new HD. Get the system back up and running with the new HD by itself
first. After the new HD is running properly as a single-HD system, you
may reformat and install the old HD as a slave if you want.

If the manufacturer's utility doesn't work (some people experience a
glitch here or there), you can always buy/use something like DriveImage,
Ghost, or BootIt NG. Stay away from DI7 -- PQ "broke" a successful
product, as DI 2002 worked fine. For best results, you want something
that will operate from a floppy boot disk, not from within Windows.
Yes, DI and Ghost can each be installed in Windows, but that's not as
reliable as running them from floppies when your subject is the OS
partition itself -- it's a little like trying to change your car tire
while you're still inside the car driving down the road.

DI 2002 is intended for all older OS's, but not for XP & will definitely
cause major (irreversible) problems under some circumstances.
DI 7.0 is specifically for XP.

--
John

No, DI 2002 is a great program and works fine on XP Pro.

Good Luck.


JMB wrote:
Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

ALSO: Since my hard drive is already going bad, maybe it's too late
to use the Drive Image 7?

What does everyone think?

Thanks!

Hi john,

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you remarked...

DI 2002 is intended for all older OS's, but not for XP & will definitely
cause major (irreversible) problems under some circumstances.
DI 7.0 is specifically for XP.

I regularly back up my XP Pro system drive using di2002/6.0 and
have never suffered any problems backing up or recovering.

What circumstances?
--
t@k (Usual Disclaimers).
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Hi JMB,

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you remarked...

Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?

ALSO: Since my hard drive is already going bad, maybe it's too late
to use the Drive Image 7?

What does everyone think?

If the drive is corrupt then I'd say it is too late.
--
t@k
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Sorry, I wish I knew.
My sister had W98 on a 40 GB Quantum Fireball drive which she wanted
upgraded to XP.
I had a spare 40 GB Quantum Fireball, so I used that as a Master in her PC,
with hers as a Sec. drive, installed XP, plus all updates to my drive &
transferred all her data over, then went to image it to her drive.
Gawd knows what happened but I suddenly found my drive wouldn't boot & gave
all the symptoms of bad segments.
It wouldn't even boot from the XP-CD, so I eventually had to do another full
install on a new WD drive.

--
John

Hi john,

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you remarked...

DI 2002 is intended for all older OS's, but not for XP & will
definitely cause major (irreversible) problems under some
circumstances.
DI 7.0 is specifically for XP.

I regularly back up my XP Pro system drive using di2002/6.0 and
have never suffered any problems backing up or recovering.

What circumstances?
--
t@k (Usual Disclaimers).
(Invalid return address, please reply to newsgroup).

I use DI 7.0 all the time, and just recently updated to 7.01.
The system works flawlessly everytime.
The images created are "NOT" bootable,
you boot from the DI install CD into a restore desktop, and then pick from
your list of image files to restore.


"Stanly A. Warner" wrote in message
...

"JMB" wrote:
Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an image of
the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the new drive, with
no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?


I've been having trouble making a bootable image of my HD,
and the email clowns at PowerQuest told me to try Drive Image
7.01 due to "improvements" over 7.0 . Well, 7.01 froze up my
system faster than 7.0 did. Then the phone tech reps said to use
Drive Image 2002. It wouldn't do a thing until I put both HDs on
the *same channel* as Master/Slave. (Apparently, PowerQuest
assumes all systems don't have enough IDE channels to put a HD
on its own dedicated channel.) But the resulting image still isn't
bootable. The "documentation" is a joke. Plan to spend a lot of
time on the phone and searching the web and cursing.

-\Stan/-

Hi Zinger,

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you remarked...

I use DI 7.0 all the time, and just recently updated to 7.01.
The system works flawlessly everytime.
The images created are "NOT" bootable,
you boot from the DI install CD into a restore desktop, and then pick from
your list of image files to restore.

I reboot from from restored system drive images quite frequently
using di6.0. If that's the rigmarole I can expect using 7.0/7.01
then I certainly won't be upgrading.
--
t@k (Usual Disclaimers).
(Invalid return address, please reply to newsgroup).

"john" wrote:
DI 2002 is intended for all older OS's, but not for XP & will definitely
cause major (irreversible) problems under some circumstances.
DI 7.0 is specifically for XP.


PowerQuest's telephone tech reps (two of them so far) have
explicitly said that Drive Image 2002 works with Windows XP
and that it may work better (more consistently and reliably)
than versions 7.0 and 7.01 . At least that is what they recommend
as a possible fix for problems I've had with 7.0 and 7.01 .

-\Stan/-

Does Norton Ghost work with Windows XP?

-\Stan/_

"CWatters" wrote:
I think Norton Ghost will also do what you want.


"JMB" wrote:
Dell tells me my hard drive is going bad. They are sending a
replacement. Powerquest Drive Image 7 says it can take an
image of the entire hard drive, and you can just copy it to the
new drive, with no need to reinstall anything. Sounds almost
too good to be true.

Anyone had success doing so in XP?