Anyone using Drive Image 7?
Has anyone here who uses Win2K or WinXP recently invested in Drive Image 7? If so, how reliable is it, particularly on backup to/restore from CD-RWs and another partition? Am vaguely thinking of getting it myself.
Has anyone here who uses Win2K or WinXP recently invested in Drive Image 7? If so, how reliable is it, particularly on backup to/restore from CD-RWs and another partition? Am vaguely thinking of getting it myself.
One might assume that a backup application like that would be 100% reliable. Well, I used to have Drive Image 5 and it worked properly only about 50% of the time. On restore, it would delete the original partition (as it should) but then fail just before completion. Despite error messages, I never did discover the exact problem. I think DI5 was just inherently buggy.
Perhaps, with DI7, the bugs have been ironed out now, though? Anyone?
One might assume that a backup application like that would be 100% reliable. Well, I used to have Drive Image 5 and it worked properly only about 50% of the time. On restore, it would delete the original partition (as it should) but then fail just before completion. Despite error messages, I never did discover the exact problem. I think DI5 was just inherently buggy.
Perhaps, with DI7, the bugs have been ironed out now, though? Anyone?
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drive image 6 and seven work for me.
4 & 20,
What sort of backups do you do? Contents of bootable partition to CDs, or to a separate physical drive, or to another partition on the same drive?
Which OS do you use?
Has DI6 or DI7 ever failed to complete a backup, or to complete a restore? In other words, has DI6 or DI7 ever been put to the ultimate test by you?
In DI5, the backup process to CDs used a CD writing utility built into the application. This was completely outside the control of the user. I think much earlier versions of DI didn't have that and instead you had to separately envoke a third-party CD writing program. So, what's the situation with DI7? Does DI7 assume that the user already has a third-party writer, such as Nero, or does it use its own built-in writer?
What sort of backups do you do? Contents of bootable partition to CDs, or to a separate physical drive, or to another partition on the same drive?
Which OS do you use?
Has DI6 or DI7 ever failed to complete a backup, or to complete a restore? In other words, has DI6 or DI7 ever been put to the ultimate test by you?
In DI5, the backup process to CDs used a CD writing utility built into the application. This was completely outside the control of the user. I think much earlier versions of DI didn't have that and instead you had to separately envoke a third-party CD writing program. So, what's the situation with DI7? Does DI7 assume that the user already has a third-party writer, such as Nero, or does it use its own built-in writer?
never made cds that sounds like a huge pain in the ass
i have made hard disk to hard disk backups
storing image on a monster storage drive then imaging to a new drive.
never failed me
i have made hard disk to hard disk backups
storing image on a monster storage drive then imaging to a new drive.
never failed me
Really, Sapiens74?
I was reading a magazine review of Drive Image 7 today and it said precisely the opposite. Indeed, it's claimed that, inside Windows, you can back up the boot partition.
The review included a successful result from imaging (into another partition) a primary partition, under Win2K.
I was reading a magazine review of Drive Image 7 today and it said precisely the opposite. Indeed, it's claimed that, inside Windows, you can back up the boot partition.
The review included a successful result from imaging (into another partition) a primary partition, under Win2K.
