Hello CHARLES!

02 Jan 04 16:50, you wrote to me:

 CA> Hello Viktor -

 CA> ->>> Do I recall correctly that PowerQuest sold Drive Image to
 CA> ->>> Norton and they put it up on a back room shelf when they
 CA> ->>> acquired Ghost???

 TW>>> I don't think so. Will have to take a look at the Power
 TW>>> Quest Web site later today and verify that one.

 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 image
 CA> copiers I stopped trying to keep them organized (in my mind) as
 CA> to which does what.

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

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

The best drive image software is dd+gzip ;)

Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

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