Editorial Review
Powerquest Drive Image 7 .
Drive Image 7.0 Backup is the premier computer backup solution, protecting all your valuable data and providing peace of mind. Easily backup everything on your computer: priceless digital photos, important financial records, your operating system and all of your important programs and settings without ever leaving Windows. Save valuable time by scheduling automatic backups.
Drive Image 7 Features- Backup your entire computer without leaving Windows
- Save your backup to virtualy any media or drive
- Safely restore your entire system or just seIected files
- Schedule automatic backups.
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Customer Reviews
Beware and listen to the warnings 
2005-02-01
I ignored the warnings of others that I read here and ordered this. The Drive Image 7 product that I received from the Amazon.com seller had a big problem (old version perhaps?).
It created drive backups OK but when I tried to boot the product disk to load the "Power Quest Recovery Environment" to do a system restore it failed solid with TXTSETUP.OEM error 18.
Turns out that the product disk was burned with a directory that had its name truncated on the CDROM. Unbeliveable but true.
After editting a copy of the disk's image to correct things, and reburning it I have it working, but I now no longer feel I can trust this product to do the backup tasks that I bought it for.
Symantec web site wants money before helping you, so forget that option your all on your own.
Poor product and even worst support! 2004-12-23
I purchased Drive Image 7.0 to backup a 160G 3 partition hard drive on Windows 2000 pro. It only sees one partition, if you run a utility program from Power Quest it thinks the end cylinder is larger than the disk, but if you look at the data, it is the end cylinder from Power Quest that doesn't seem to support extended partitions larger than 137 GB. The main issue is that the Drive Image program doesn't report any errors, it just sees one partition. When I called for support, they were extremely un helpful, after downloading the latest version of the SW it still doesn't work. The problem is still not solved!
Version 7 is not stable 2004-10-13
I am using PQ products almost 5 years and agree with all previous reviewes version 7 is bad. I had problem with XP Home edition. There is no dicent support for current product. (...) Symantec blaming PQ and PQ are diluted in the Symantec - endless loop.
Terrible support even for telephone activation 2004-08-23
PowerQuest used to provide excellent support last 5 years when I used their product. Symantec is giving us almost no support. The web site won't even give you instructions for activating the Drive Image 7 or Partition Magic 8 by phone correctly. What they gave you won't work for DI7 or PM8. Telephone number they ask you to call for activation is always busy and tell you to call back later. We paid for the long distance charge too. After 15 or 30 days,(depends on which document you read) you are locked out of the software you paid for if you cannot get through to Symantec.. Other very serious problems are revealed by other customers. Read their comments before you want to pay for the software. Also if you own more than one computers, you must purchase another license.
I'll just go back to my DI5 and PM7 for now.
You'll be sorry if you don't have it. 
2004-08-01
Like most computer users, I expected that sooner or later something would go wrong. So I made it a practice to back up my entire computer (3 of them) from time to time. Something got on one of them. Try as I might, I couldn't find it and it was occupying a huge amount of space (almost 20 gb). Long story short, I considered reformatting the hard drive and reloading a ton of programs. First, I thought I'd try to reinstall the backup image of the drive. It worked like a charm. My concern that the old "hidden" program or whatever, wouldn't be overwritten. It was and it was restored perfectly to the last backup point. Don't be without it. You will need a device to backup to such as an external hard drive. Otherwise, a charm.
Please dont buy this garbage. 2004-06-24
Powerquest Drive Image 7 .
Drive Image 7.0 Backup is the premier computer backup solution, protecting all your valuable data and providing peace of mind. Easily backup everything on your computer: priceless digital photos, important financial records, your operating system and all of your important programs and settings without ever leaving Windows. Save valuable time by scheduling automatic backups.
Drive Image 7 Features- Backup your entire computer without leaving Windows
- Save your backup to virtualy any media or drive
- Safely restore your entire system or just seIected files
- Schedule automatic backups.
Disappointed! 2004-05-18
I purchased DI 7 because of the accolades it supposedly received. I knew I was going to need it since I was going to be getting a new hard drive for my failing hard-drive in my Dell laptop. At first, I was impressed how easy it was to backup my C:/ drive from my laptop to an external firewire hard drive. I even tested the Recovery Environment as it suggested, and that seemed to work without a hitch. Then the day came that I replaced my old hard drive with a new hard drive. I started out doing a bare metal recovery as it touts it can do effortlessly.... It didn't work. It gave me an error that my hard drive was not readable. So, I thought, I could just reinstall XP and then restore everything after I had the basic OS up and running. I tried it that way, and same result. Nothing.
I consider myself an advanced computer user.... I know how to partition, reformat drives, etc etc.... All I wanted was an application that would make my life easier as the software said it would. It turns out I wasted $69.00 on this usless software. I guess I'll keep looking for another drive imaging application, because Drive Image 7 isn't worth squat. Good luck.
Software is a junk 2004-04-24
Because of this software I have to rebuild my computer. Nothing works. Even the basic user interface changes size everytime I reopen this software.
I paid to get this headache.
Drive Image 7 - Not the right stuff 2004-04-19
Try Drive Image 7 and didn't work. Upgraded to 7.03 the same error message.
Description: An error occurred creating a backup of drive C:\. The Virtual Volume Imaging driver (pqv2i.sys) is not present on the system.
Error Description: An error occurred creating a backup of drive C:\. The Virtual Volume Imaging driver (pqv2i.sys) is not present on the system.
Error EC8F000C: Cannot find the Virtual Volume Image driver. Error 00000002: The system cannot find the file specified.
Details: Unspecified error: Cannot find the Virtual Volume Image driver. Error 00000002: The system cannot find the file specified.
Details: Unspecified error
Since I opened the software - can not return it and I'm stuck with something that doesn't work. :-(
Huge amount of problems 2004-03-21
I have used various versions of Drive Image for 4 years. All have had problems but version 7 has more problems than previous versions. I have encountered a number of the problems I have seen mentioned here. I just put on the upgrade to 7.3 (on a very stable Windows 2000 system), hoping it would fix some of the problems, and it instantly crashed my system and made my system unbootable!!! What an atrocious disgrace. And now that Symantec (Norton) has taken over the product and its support, there is virtually no support or help. The support on the web site is terribly lacking and almost useless. The error messages the product gives are often undocumented.
Particularly bad, as mentioned by someone else, is that DI can create a backup image and say it is successful. But when it later views the image it says the image is invalid. That's as bad as it gets with backup software. The reason I still use Drive Image (I am back to using DI 5 as it is less error-prone than DI 7)is that I have had even bigger problems with Norton Ghost. I wish there was a good and reliable software product for making image backups, but haven't found one yet.
