DriveImage7 HELP!

Hello everyone,

I'm desperately trying to boot from the " PowerQuest DriveImage7" CD Recovery Environment in order to restore my hard disk.
At every try I get the following message:

“ file TXSETUP.OEM as generated an error 18 at line 1742 in d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c "

Then the boot process stops!

HELP HELP I really do not know what to do to solve this problem!

Any help or suggestion is highly appreciated
Thanks



PS: I’m running a PC under XP Home

 

Sounds like my worst nightmare (I depend on DI7 as well), my profound sympathy. If you Google TXSETUP.OEM, you get a couple of semingly irrelevant hits. But if you Google TXTSETUP.OEM (ie, did you spell it right?), you get a bunch of stuff that might be helpful....for ex: http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/realmen/msg00044.html

So maybe you have to be clever and get the TXTSETUP file in there somehow. I have no idea how. I'd suggest the DI E-Mail help site. I had a problem once, and they were prompt with a useful answer (altho now it's Symantec, it may be worthless). But I'd go back to tech support for help if you don't find anything at Google. If you remember, pls post back with what happened, I may have the same horrible thing happen to me someday. Good luck.

 

DriveImage7

Hi Chris,

thanks for your message and sympathy. I will follow your suggestions but so far I'm not quite sure I have clearly understood what to do!


I feel is totally unacceptable that this software does not do the job for what we have paid and no simple and automated process exists for booting w/out complex computing knowledge.

Lots of people they have suggested to move to Acronis which is much simple to use, unfortunately my image was done with DI7 and I need firstly to be able to reload it.

I hope I’ll find a solution will post it!

Regards

 

DI7 is a piece of useless software!!

After trying almost everything I found in the web, including a Bart PE boot CD,
I have decided to give up DI7 and to throw it into the garbage bin!

 

Good Move

 

Now that you're in the market for a new backup programme.
I'd suggest Acronis True Image 8.0.
This is one great programme that actually works. Now that's a bonus!

http://www.acronis.com

 

Hi Paul,
are you saying that Acronis DI 8 is actually working with XP without great difficulty??
I had been trying with 7 and after reading all the trouble other users where having reading at the Wilders Acronis Forum I thought it was just not worth the trouble using it.
I would be interested in hearing more good news about it.
hawk22

 

Actually, I use DI7 and have had no problems....but I never had to do a recovery, either (seems like it's too late to find out there's a problem). But the "cloning" process works smoothly without any hitches. I do it every few weeks, and I keep the clones for about 6 months.....so if one doesn't recover correctly, I can go to an earlier version....I don't know if Nat did that or not.

When I was looking for imaging software, I also looked at Norton Ghost and Acronis. All 3 had plenty of nay-sayers, as well as "I love it" folks too. DI supposedly had the best user interface, and I don't like anything with the Norton name on it (too buggy). I really don't understand why imaging software is so difficult to write....making a copy of your HD ought to be pretty trivial. Bottom line is I like DI7 (on XP), but I haven't had to do a recovery.

 

To elaborate a little. Our local branch IT co-ord at work bought Acronis 7.0 a couple of weeks ago, and the company offered a free upgrade to version 8.0. Ghost 2003 or Corporate version wouldn't save a HD image to an external USB HD, as it was supposed to.
Anyway I volunteered to actually make sure Acronis worked as it should. We use W2K at work and it worked perfectly to an external drive. I even deleted the partition before restoring just to make sure it worked. It was fine.
I tried it at home on my XP Pro laptop. I saved the image to a DVD-RW. An integrity check passed as well. But havent reimaged it. The startup/recovery disc you make gives USB/Firewire and network support as well. Nice!