Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Worked OK on ME, won't do XP
I bought DI 2002 and used it successfully on Win ME for a month or so to do unattended backups (after a HD failure). Upgraded to XP, then could not get it to work through Windows-- continual "out of memory" errors on reboot. NO useful info on PQ Tech Support website for XP or running through Windows, emails to Tech Support came back with "canned" responses pointing me to older solutions on website for problems booting from floppy disks. Finally switched to Acronis TrueImage- yes, it won't run unattended, but it has a great simple interface and is much faster than DI, and you don't have to reboot to back up.
Rating:  - Be careful with Windows XP and Drive Image 2002 - Revised
This is a complete reversal of a previous rating I submitted several weeks ago. One of the 'improvements' I picked up along with Windows XP was a little utility called "Go Back". It's a nice utility. Do NOT have it running when you use Drive Image. With that proviso (which IS covered in the manual), the program works with Windows XP as advertised.The usefulness of Drive Image is that I can make an image of drive C:, a partition on which I place ONLY the Windows operating system and some vital utilities. All of my programs and data files are maintained on other partitions, and the actual image of Drive C: is placed on its own partition on the hard drive, with a backup copy on a CD. This is a configuration that allows an extremely rapid imaging/restoring process. Whenever Windows bombs or needs a cleanup to the point of reinstallation being necessary, a simple restoration of the boot disk from the image and I am back online in 30 minutes or less. To their credit, PowerQuest worked with me to try to get Drive Image functioning, but I sabotaged the effort by not disabling Go Back. If you're familiar with previous versions of Drive Image, you won't be disappointed by this newest build. Just read the fine manual!
Rating: - Won't do the simplist things
I purchased DriveImage2000 simply so that I could copy my C: drive to my backup D: drive, which is nearly double the size of my C: drive. After one backup was done, it won't let me do another backup because it says my D: drive doesn't have enough space. It doesn't give the user the simple option of selecting whether the destination drive/media should be overwritten or not. Thus, if you want to do a backup, you MUST have completely blank media, or you must erase your destination media before you attempt to do any backup. Sorry folks, but I don't think I'm going to install a blank hard drive, or manually erase my existing backup hard drive every time (daily) I want to do a new backup. Their advertising on the box says, "You can schedule your hard drive to be automatically backed up daily, weekly, or monthly." What a bunch of bunk! That simply is UNTRUE unless your backup hard drive is many, many times larger than the drive to be backed up, or unless you manually erase everything that's on the backup hard drive each time a backup is done. If you do that, then why backup at all!? This software is worthless, and it's advertising is very misleading. It has a great number of limitations and one does not know the limitations until it is too late; (until after one has paid for the software and has broken the seal on the package).
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