Hello CHARLES!

03 Jan 04 06:01, you wrote to me:

 CA> Hello Viktor -

 CA> --8<--cut

 VP>>>> Not really, PQ DriveImage is alive and well, the last
 VP>>>> version is 7.0 (AFAIK) and being sold for something like
 VP>>>> 80$.

 CA>>> Once I decided I wouldn't pay the price for commercial
 CA>>> image copiers I stopped trying to keep them organized (in
 CA>>> my mind) as to which does what.

 CA>>> Recently Fred Langa has written about some that only work
 CA>>> from within Windows and no longer boot from DOS? Seems a
 CA>>> bit precarious to assume that when needing to restore an
 CA>>> image copy Windows will be booting at that time?

 CA>>> I personally use a shareware version of BootitNG and have
 CA>>> no complaints. I have restored my entire OS partition 14
 CA>>> times to date to recover from the previous owners mistakes
 CA>>> and some of my own. Tweaking W2K without an image copy
 CA>>> would be a huge mistake IMO. ;-)

 VP>> The best drive image software is dd+gzip ;)

And it's free too :)

 CA> With the majority of computer users using a GUI interface I
 CA> suspect that a command line utility would cause them problems?
 CA> When creating and/or restoring an image copy of an entire
 CA> partition is _not_ the time to become confused. ;-)

Sometime it seems to me that command line is way less confusing than the
GUI of some programs. ;)

Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

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