DriveImage and NTFS

When I boot Drive Image in DOS, the only way it will work, it does not see my NTFS drive.

I tried NTFSDOS that allows it to SEE that drive but it does not copy anything. I need to be able to back up that disk some way

 

I'm guessing this relates to your 4 Nov post about a Drive Image boot disk for XP.

What do you mean, the only way it will work is in DOS?

If you have DI installed in XP, run it from XP and have your HD formatted for NTFS, DI should run just fine... if you have all but one partion or drive formatted as FAT32 and try to create an image file of an NTFS partition or separate HD, that may not be possible.

Why do you think you can only run DI from DOS, if you run it from XP, select the source partition and the save destination and then select finish, DI boots to DOS to perform the operations and when they are finished reboots back to XP, you should only need to boot to DOS to run DI if you can't get into XP at all from system boot.

Please provide a clearer description of just what sort of problem you're having so we can figure out what sort answer to give to you.

 

tenbob, One thing that I can think of is, you may have something like GoBack installed on your computer so that Drive Image can't do its normal reboot to DOS and copy the boot drive. It should be giving you some sort of "exit error" when this refusal occurs (I get exit code 9). Furthermore, Goback hooks the MBR and causes the drive to not be visible unless you boot using the GoBack option screen which provides a floppy boot selection. That allows the overlay to be installed and all drives will then be visible.

There are other drive overlay programs that will cause this as well.

 

To Harold.

I guess I am missing something or using the incorrect DI app to do work from within XP. What is the name of the EXE file that does it. I tried PQDI and tells me it only works within DOS. Is it the QuickImage app that I want.

If so, it should have been name PQDI_XP

 

tenbob,

From the Start menu select Drive Image 2002 and the DI screen should come up showing the Create Image or Restore Image options.

Select Create and you can set the options for however you wish to configure the image file for compression, password protect etc., as long as you're in XP, you shouldn't have to type anything in just select DI 2002 from the Start menu or create a desktop shorcut to Drive Image 2002.exe.

I'm not sure what QuickImage app you're talking about, I don't have anything like that in DI 2002... are you using the PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 program or some other program that uses the same terminology?

As Zephyr suggested, if you don't have GoBack installed, make sure the XP System Restore function is disabled... go to Start, right click on Control Panel, select Properties and under System Restore select " turn off system restore for all drives ".

 

I am using DriveImage 5.0 and it is written for XP since I downloaded the updage from PQ.

That may account for the difference in terminology. I do thing that the quickImage is the thing I want. Looked it over and, without actually doing it, it seems to be right.

I'll contact PQ to be sure tho. Thanks for all the replies since it did point me in the right direction. If PQ tells me that is it, I'll post the information for anyone else with the problem.

 

In 5.0, images are created directly from Windows by calling up QuickImage. In 2002, you call up Drive Image from the Program menu. The screen of QuickImage is the same as the screen of 2002 when booting from the Rescue Disks.

Drive Image/QuickImage actually works in DOS. According to PowerQuest, images can be stored to either FAT32 or NTFS partitions.

You should be able to see the FAT32 or NTFS partitions in Drive Image. The FAT 32 partitions will have letters. The NTFS partitions will have note the disk number and partition number, instead of letters.

I've only used Drive Image with XP on an XP partition formatted in FAT32. But you may save yourself some headache if the partition used for storing the image is formatted in FAT 32.