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Rating:  - Does not work on XP
If I could give this product 0 stars I would.I used the Virtual flpooy mode first and copied it to my new maxtor 60 Gig hard drive, when done it wouldn't boot up. So then I tried the create program disk mode and again it said that the operation was a sucess. Tried to boot up, nothing but errors. After about 3 hours of wasting my time and money I had to re-install windows Xp from scratch. The drive utility that came with the Maxtor Hard Drive was more useful than this over priced [item]. Maybe it does work in Windows 98 or Me which allows you to run in DOS but not in XP. Powerquest has no updates for this product.
Rating:  - You Don't Have To Be a Computer Wiz
As soon as I received my copy of DriveCopy 4.0 I sat down to read the manual, install the program on floppies, install,configure and copy the new hard drive, remove the old one and voila! I had the new device running! It was that easy! I personally recommend this program to everyone.
Rating:  - Not a product for the faint of heart....
I could not get this product to install correctly using the "virtual floppy" option on Windows Millenium. The product has some limitations which are not clearly spelled out in the advertising or the reviews. Namely, you must keep your current partitions intact, although you can copy them over to a new physical drive (ie you can't "collapse" two or more existing partitions into one new partition). I wanted to copy over the contents of an existing C:, D:, and E: drive to an existing, second, already partitioned physical drive - but I wanted this drive to be a single C: partition. You can't do this - you have to copy over the C: D: and E: partitions to an *empty* second physical drive and create the same partitions on the new drive. To its credit, DriveCopy will automatically proportionally resize those same partitions on the new physical dive to maximize the available space on it.On the credit side: My one call to PowerQuest Tech Support was very productive - the guy I spoke to was knowledgable and helpful. However, he couldn't make the default virtual floppy install work for me either, I ended up installing onto conventional floppies. After that, the copy process was relatively painless and pretty quick. Some follow-up notes: Since using this product to copy my Windows Millenium installation from one physical drive to another, I've experienced many, many Windows and/or application failures. Prior to this move my Windows installation was relatively stable (perhaps one app or Windows failure per month - it's now about 1-2 per two-hour session). Are the issues related? I can't prove it of course - but I'm suspicious. I don't mean to blame the DriveCopy product here - this is a weakness of the Windows operating system. Still, it's you the user who feels the pain! Also please note that if you use this product to move your bootable partition (your C: drive) to another physical disk - you must know how to ensure that the new disk is configured correctly (usually via manual jumper wires or switches on the disk itself) to be the Master IDE drive. Note: this assumes you have IDE disk drives - versus SCSI. The vast majority of you will have IDE drives (because they're cheaper!), and they must be configured as either a master or a slave. At the end of the day, the bootable drive MUST be configured as the IDE Master and any other disk on the same IDE channel must be configured as a slave. Moving the jumpers or switches per se is easy - as long as you know what you're doing and/or you have documentation from your disk manufacturer. Getting it wrong may cause your PC to fail to boot up. Don't expect PowerQuest to tell you how to do this - if changing switch options or jumper wires on your hard disk makes you uncomfortable, then don't use this product to move your C: drive to another disk! Or, be prepared to pay a technician to come and do it for you. Good luck!
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