PowerQuest DRIVE IMAGE 2002 . (PowerQuest-DM60ENK1)

• Reviewed by: akhan8444

  Strengths: none what so ever

  Weaknesses: Doesn't work at all

  Overall: I first bought Drive Image 2002 and tried it with two of my machines, one with NT 4.0 and the other with XP. Both the PCs have the latest service packs. The software didn't work. I then bought Drive Image 4 and still, I was not able to even get started. It constantly erroed out and documentation was of no use either. I am not so much sorry for the money I put in it as much I am sorry for all the countless hours I wasted with the trust and hope that it will work. Well... it didn't. There are far too many choices now in the market to pick from. Do yourself a favor, don't pick this one. You will avoid yourself a lot of agony and frustration. Going to Powerquest.com now takes you to Symantec website and Symantec no longer supports this product. Go figure.

• Reviewed by: pentium4forever

  Strengths: Works, will save your system when trouble happens! Pretty easy to use software.

  Weaknesses: Forces you to run in a DOS-like environment with boot disks.

  Overall: I have created backups and happy I have. It's saved my hard drive's partition containing XP Home on it a few times. It's an easy to use program, and works great. I store backups on cd-rw media, the rewriteable discs, not the one time use, at least not usually. It reads them fine. I've heard of media that it works crappy with. Well, SmartBuy cd-rws it does work. When specifying the location for the backups you might have to click on the cd-rw drive a few times. It works though and does it's job perfect. I've never had any problems with the program and I have had it for 2 years. I don't even care about upgrading to Drive Image 7, I've heard negative things about it anyhow. Drive Image 2002 is worth the money. It will save your OS's partition one day and you will be thankful for the program!

• Reviewed by: WallacePratt

  Strengths: Can make images from Windows 2000

  Weaknesses: Attempts at imaging from Windows ME failed

  Overall: On my system Drive Image 2002 has worked poorly. I have 2 hard drives, one 80 GB, and the other 30 GB. There are 4 partitions on the 80 GB hard drive, 2 partitions containing Windows ME, 1 with Windows 2000, and an extended partition for data. Running Windows 2000 I can make images of the other partitions just fine. However, running Drive Image 2002 from either of the Windows ME partitions results in a C++ error message screen just as 4% of the image is completed. Then the imaging stops. I sent e-mail to tech support. They responded with the usual "update your drivers, maybe there's a conflict with another program running in the background." Updating the drivers, and running Windows ME with nothing else installed didn't help. I use System Commander to boot the different operating systems. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe large partitions on an 80 GB drive aren't supported in Windows ME.

• Reviewed by: TheDougMan2

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Does not perform as described.

  Overall: Minimal documentation.The product documentaion is just a few pages long and does not convey the full extent of steps necessary to actually perform a complete hard drive back up and restore.This product actually rendered the drive I was trying to back up inactive and would not boot frtom the new drive.If you value your data watch out using this one!I spent 70 dollars on this piece of crap software." I will share my strong consumer opinions with all"

• Reviewed by: c_woolley

  Strengths: Valuable tool for IT Professionals. Can easily duplicate a good image for multiple new computers for use on a network or stand-alone configuration. Saves companies time and money.

  Weaknesses: Could use Norton Ghost's ability to do a network "push" to multiple systems at once.

  Overall: I have been using this product for a little less than a month and found that it has saved my company time and money to use. I have duplicated 15 new systems (each usually needs 4 hrs each to configure with our software), and have cut my time to 1 hr per machine. This panned out to be 75 hours of saved time.