Drive Image with XP

[brentconn]

I use Drive Image 2002 to back up my main drive to a backup drive and recently had a big scare with potentially losing some valuable data. To make a long story short, I had to use my emergency boot disks that I made when I installed the software. When booting with the disks, the Caldera software worked fine and the copying of the saved image back to my main drive began, but at 92% of copying, the image transfer failed with error #1513 which is basically bad attribute position associated with Partition Magic, not Drive Image. I tried the image transfer again but the same thing happened at 92%. After freaking out for a few minutes, I decided to totally reinstall XP and then install Drive Image 2002. I then went to Drive Image and clicked restore image and this time I was able to retrieve the image from the other hard drive. If this is what I have to do to restore my main drive, then it defeats the purpose of the emergency boot disks. If you can’t boot in DOS with Caldera, there is no point in making emergency boot disks for Drive Image! After getting everything back to normal, I ran chkdsk /f to make sure everything was ok and fix any problems there might be, then I made new emergency boot disks. I don't know if they will work. Has anybody run into this problem restoring from boot disks for Drive Image on XP? Could it be the NTFS I am using instead of FAT 32? Any theories, advice?

Thanks

[RayH]

I use Drive Image 2002. The only problem I've ever had with booting from the emergency disks is that I had a corrupted Disk One. I had to substitute Disk One for Windows 98SE boot disk and add a mouse.exe. Disk Two executed flawlessly with that substitution. So I was running on MS DOS.

The only .pqi files I had that wouldn't execute entirely were CDs made from the hard drive which appeared to be overly compressed. Those files would have super disk maintenance:
1) remove all dead registry items;
2) remove all cookies, histories, temp files, dead files;
3) defrag
4) erase space between files (like with Evidence Eliminator)
5) defrag again

The .pqi file would restore just fine directly from the hard drive. But it made the back up CD files useless. I solved this problem by logging on to the internet and hitting a couple of sites. This seemed to "fluff" my hard drive.

But other than that, I've had no problems.

[brentconn]

Thanks Ray.
I found out that Drive Image 2002 is really not made for XP though it can be used. I have decided to go with Drive Image 7 which was specifically designed for XP users and does not use the Caldera DOS but instead uses a bare bones XP bootup disk which makes it so easy without the errors caused by the NTFS system. Also I will have DVD backup capability which is not available with other versions. It is well worth the $40 upgrade.