Powerquest Drive Image 7

After a brief flirtation with using the year as a model code, Powerquest has reverted to its old ways and called its latest imaging software Drive Image 7. This version is built on the same code used in Powerquest's professional V2i Protector software, and runs only on Windows 2000 Pro SP2 and Windows XP PCs. However, inside the box you'll also find the previous version Drive Image 2002 which is compatible with Windows 95, 98 and ME, and lets you create partitions where you save your drive's image.

When using Drive Image 2002 you could capture images of applications and data, but not of your active Windows partition. The major change with Drive Image 7 is that you can capture everything including the system partition while it's in use. You no longer make recovery floppies as version 7 doesn't work in Dos at all, instead being entirely Windows-based.

Another change is that the.pqi file format for images has now become.v2i and the interface is very similar to V2i. You can tell Drive Image 7 to ignore bad sectors, where previously a corrupt disk could stop the whole process in its tracks.

Regular backups can be made to another partition, to removable media or over a network, and if necessary the image can be broken into 640MB chunks to fit on to CD.

The imaging system is ideal for copying the entire contents of a hard disk, for instance when upgrading to a new hard disk. We tested this by migrating from a single ATA100 drive to a striped Raid array of Serial ATA drives, and the transition was flawless.

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System Requirements:

• Windows XP/2000 SP2
• Pentium processor
• 256MB of Ram