packman 0 Posted October 12, 2003 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? Share this post Link to post
Icester 0 Posted October 12, 2003 Drive Image 6 was problem free. However, I once had a problem because the drive was too fragmented. Lesson learned: defragment before creating an image. Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted October 12, 2003 drive image 6 and seven work for me. Share this post Link to post
packman 0 Posted October 12, 2003 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? Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted October 12, 2003 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 Share this post Link to post
sapiens74 0 Posted October 13, 2003 I use both 6 and 7 7 wont restore a main partition if doing it from within windows. Share this post Link to post
packman 0 Posted October 13, 2003 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. Share this post Link to post
