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- PowerQuest(R) Drive Image(R) 2002
- Demo Version
-
- You can use the demo version of Drive Image to see the interface
- and walk through common tasks. However, you cannot actually complete
- tasks (such as creating an image, restoring an image, or creating
- a boot disk). You cannot create Drive Image rescue diskettes from
- the demo software, either.
-
-
- Contents:
- 1. New Features
- 2. Install
- 3. General Issues
- 4. CD Issues
- 5. Hardware Issues
- 6. Scheduling Image Creation Under Windows NT/2000/XP
- 7. MBR Utility
- 8. WIPEHEAD Utility
- 9. PowerQuest's Storage Manager Newsletter
-
-
- 1. New Features
- ---------------
- Drive Image 2002 includes the following new features:
-
- - Native Windows version of Drive Image. Drive Image
- runs in Windows if it can lock each partition (that is,
- if there are no files opened on the partitions) involved
- in the task you are performing. If Drive Image cannot
- lock the partitions, it will go into DOS boot mode to
- perform the operations. You do not need to enter
- information from DOS unless you run Drive Image DOS from
- the rescue diskettes.
-
- - Limited partitioning capability to create and maintain a
- backup location on the hard disk.
-
- - CD-R and CD-R/W support. Drive Image lets you create images
- directly to CDs (just as you can using Drive Image DOS).
- You need no other third-party software or drivers. If Drive
- Image cannot execute in Windows, it will burn the CD in DOS
- boot mode.
-
- - Network support. If Drive Image can execute natively in Windows
- (in other words, if there are no open files on the partitions
- being imaged or the location where the image is being restored),
- you can just select the corresponding network drive letter to
- create or restore an image on the network. The Boot Disk Builder
- program included with Drive Image lets you create or restore
- images to or from a network drive even when Drive Image must
- execute in DOS boot mode (or if you run Drive Image from the
- rescue diskettes). DOS support for network devices is dependent
- upon the availability of DOS NIC drivers for your NIC. Drive
- Image ships with some of the most common NIC drivers.
-
- - Four new wizards:
-
- Initial Backup Wizard - Lets you create an image of
- your system to removable media (such as a CD-R or CD-R/W)
- before modifying drives on the hard disks.
-
- Setup Wizard - Selects or creates a backup partition
- on the hard disk for storing backup images.
-
- Create New Partition (found in the Disk Operations
- feature) - Lets you create a new partition
- on your hard disk.
-
- Redistribute Free Space Wizard - Assists in maintaining
- or cleaning up your hard disk. If you run out of space to
- store image files on your backup partition, you can use
- this wizard to equalize free space on all the partitions
- on the hard disk, increasing space for the backup partition.
- If you remove the backup partition from the hard disk, you can
- use this wizard to put the space that was in your backup
- location back into other partitions that you are still
- using (such as your C: drive).
-
- - USB/FireWire support. Drive Image lets you create or restore images
- to and from USB or FireWire drives if Drive Image can execute
- natively in Windows (without dropping to DOS boot mode). If Drive
- Image must execute in DOS boot mode, support for such devices is
- dependent upon the availability of DOS drivers for the drives.
-
-
- 2. Install
- ----------
- - To burn an image to a SCSI CD burner, you must select SCSI Drivers
- during installation so that the drivers are installed correctly in
- the virtual floppy. You must also choose SCSI Drivers when creating
- the Drive Image rescue diskettes.
-
- - Drive Image will work only under Windows 95c or higher. If
- you are using Windows 3.x or Windows 95a or 95b, you should
- upgrade your Windows version before using Drive Image.
-
-
- 3. General Issues
- -----------------
- - Dynamic disks are not supported.
-
- - Image file passwords should not include extended characters.
-
- - All hard disks and removable disks must be enabled in BIOS
- for Drive Image to access them in boot mode and from the
- rescue diskettes (in other words, whenever Drive Image is
- running from DOS). You can change BIOS settings by watching
- the screen when you start your computer and pressing the key
- specified.
-
- - On some systems with mixed IDE and SCSI hard disks, Drive
- Image DOS may not boot properly from the virtual floppy. If
- you have a mixed system and you experience this problem, run
- Drive Image DOS from the rescue diskettes instead.
-
- - Do not save backup images on encrypted folders or on
- NTFS compressed drives. If you try to access an image
- on an NTFS compressed drive, you will receive error 1810.
- If you try to select an image in an encrypted folder,
- Drive Image will not allow you to select the image file.
-
- - (Windows XP) If you use Disk Operations to unhide a
- partition, the partition is unhidden but it is not
- assigned a drive letter because the DOS boot mode used
- by Drive Image cannot access the Windows registry. Use
- Disk Administrator to assign a drive letter.
-
- - Disk operations you can perform on unformatted and unknown
- partitions are limited.
-
- - Note the following issues if you restore a Linux image to a
- system that had a different operating system installed
- previously: 1) The first sector of the drive receiving the
- Linux image must be cleared before the Linux MBR (Master
- Boot Record) can be installed. 2) You must specify that the
- MBR be installed from the image for the system to boot
- properly. You can modify the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the first
- rescue disk (or the boot disk you are using instead) to
- include the /MBR switch for Drive Image DOS.
-
-
- 4. CD Issues
- ------------
- - Difficulties with creating images to CD may be resolved
- by downloading the latest CD drivers and/or firmware updates
- from the CD manufacturer.
-
- - Some PCMCIA cards may not allow Drive Image to burn images
- at full speed with some of the faster CD-R/W drives (such as
- 12x and 16x). You can use the /CDRSPD switch to throttle
- down the speed and allow for image creation. The syntax is
- /cdrspd=X, where X = drive speed. For example, the command
- line DriveImage9x.exe (or DriveImageNT.exe) /cdrspd=8
- (Windows versions) or PQDI /cdrspd=8 (DOS version) would
- force the drive to burn at 8x. If you specify a speed
- that is not supported by the drive, Drive Image will use the
- default speed of the drive.
-
- - It is not necessary to load a CD driver to create OR
- restore an image on a CD drive. Under DOS, during the create
- or restore process, go to the Browse dialog, then from the
- drop-down list of drives, select the entry that starts with
- \\.\PQCD, followed by a number and a description of the drive.
- Under Windows, select the drive letter of the CD drive.
-
- - Drive Image 2002 is designed to support all CD-R drives that
- burn at 8X or faster. Some drives slower than 8X may not
- function properly with Drive Image. Check your CD-R
- documentation for details on the speed of your CD-R write
- capability.
-
- - Sometimes when you restore an image from a spanned CD set,
- if you insert the next media, then press <Enter>, the
- message "the media does not contain the correct file"
- appears. Click OK. Drive Image will read the media again and
- continue to restore the image.
-
- - HIMEM.SYS is no longer required to be loaded in the
- CONFIG.SYS if you are creating images to CD-R/W media.
- However, if it is loaded it will not affect the performance
- of the program.
-
- - The CD drive may not be recognized when first starting
- Drive Image, which could prevent Drive Image from
- writing images to a CD-R. If the CD is NOT in the drive
- when Drive Image starts, the drive is recognized.
- Therefore the workaround is to not insert a CD until
- right before the machine is getting ready to reboot
- and create the image file.
-
- - If you restore an image that you created on a CD using an
- earlier version of Drive Image, Drive Image 2002 may display
- an inaccurate size needed for the destination. This problem
- does not occur for images you create using Drive Image 2002.
-
-
- 5. Hardware Issues
- ------------------
- - If a USB mouse is not detected from the Drive Image
- rescue diskettes or DOS boot mode, the mouse drivers
- are not loaded. You may be able to enable the mouse
- in the BIOS. To do so, watch the screen when you start
- your computer, press the key specified, enter the BIOS
- advanced settings, and set "USB Legacy Support" (or
- something similar) to either enabled or auto. If you
- cannot enable the mouse in the BIOS, you can use the
- keyboard shortcuts in DOS.
-
- - If you create an image file to CD-R using the MELCO
- CRWSU-B1610H drive, Drive Image may hang early in the CD
- burning process. This is caused by the external hardware
- which converts the ATAPI drive to an USB/SCSI drive. It may
- also return an error when attempting to create the image.
- This is a new drive that may not currently work with Drive
- Image.
-
- - If you run Drive Image DOS on a computer with a Soyo 6ba+IV
- motherboard, the Display Drive Information command (on the
- Tools menu) may display multiple, non-existent drive
- letters. This problem occurs when there are no drives
- present on the Ultra66 IDE channels. To fix the problem,
- attach at least one drive to the Ultra66.
-
-
- 6. Scheduling Image Creation Under Windows NT/2000/XP
- -----------------------------------------------------
- - If you choose to create an image "At System Startup" and
- the default of "Prompt before running Drive Image," Drive
- Image does not run when you restart the computer. You must
- deselect "prompt before running Drive Image" to run Drive
- Image at startup.
-
- When you choose to create an image "at system startup" and
- deselect "prompt before running Drive Image," Drive Image
- creates an image when you restart the computer, even though
- the Drive Image splash screen and progress screen do not
- display. You should not open any files in the folder
- where the image is being created until after Drive Image
- has stopped running.
-
- - (Windows XP only) If you deselect the "prompt before
- running Drive Image" option and Drive Image is set
- to run but you have switched to another fast user, Drive
- Image will not run. For optimal performance when using
- Fast User Switching, schedule imaging tasks for off-peak
- times or when the computer is idle for at least 30 minutes.
-
- - If you are running Drive Image on a Windows NT Workstation
- with SP6 applied, and you schedule the task to "Wait Until
- Shutdown" to run, the system will not shut down properly to
- let Drive Image run. To work around this problem with SP6,
- press Ctrl+Alt+Del, then click "Shut Down" to reboot the
- machine.
-
-
- The MBR and WIPEHEAD utilities discussed below are
- troubleshooting utilities used by PowerQuest Technical Support.
- They are designed for advanced users.
-
-
- 7. MBR Utility
- --------------
- This Windows command utility will save the contents of the MBR
- (the first sector on the first hard drive) to a file. It will
- also restore the contents of a file to the MBR. It is found on
- the CD in the UTILITY\WINDOWS folder.
-
- You may wish to run this utility to back up the contents of your
- MBR to a file in case a virus destroys the MBR on your hard disk.
- Be aware that if you run this utility, change partitions on your
- hard disk, and then restore the MBR with this utility, you will
- cause problems with your computer. Therefore, if you want to use
- this utility to back up your MBR, you should run it each time you
- change partitions on the hard disk.
-
- Syntax:
-
- MBRutil /S=<filename> Saves the MBR to the file specified
-
- MBRutil /R=<filename> Restores the MBR from the file specified
-
- MBRutil /? Displays the program syntax
-
-
- 8. WIPEHEAD Utility
- -------------------
- This WIPEHEAD Windows command utility will clear the contents of
- the first head (track) on the first hard disk, with the exception
- of the MBR (the first sector). If the drive has 63 sectors per
- track, this utility will clear out (that is, set all bytes to
- zero) sectors 2 through 63. This utility is found on the Drive
- Image CD in the UTILITY\WINDOWS folder. If the Drive Image
- virtual floppy will not install correctly, this utility may solve
- the problem.
-
- Syntax:
-
- WipeHead
-
- There are no command line parameters for the WIPEHEAD utility.
-
-
- 9. POWERQUEST'S STORAGE MANAGER NEWSLETTER
- ------------------------------------------
- PowerQuest has a free monthly electronic newsletter that is dedicated
- to official announcements, tips, and techniques for PowerQuest
- products. You can view the newsletter online at
- www.powerquest.com/newsletter.
-
-
- ==============================================================
- PowerQuest can be reached at:
-
- Telephone: 801-437-8900
- Fax: 801-226-8941
- E-mail: magic@powerquest.com
- PowerQuest web site: www.powerquest.com
-
- Copyright 1994-2002 PowerQuest Corporation. All rights
- reserved. Drive Image and its use are subject to a license
- agreement and are also subject to copyright, trademark, patent
- and/or other laws. Refer to the user guide, the Help About
- screen, and www.powerquest.com/legal_notices for additional
- information about PowerQuest patents. Drive Image and
- PowerQuest are registered trademarks of PowerQuest
- Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks
- or registered trademarks of the respective owners.