Drive Image (PQDI) is a software
disk cloning Disk cloning is the process of creating a 1-to-1 copy of a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), not just its files. Disk cloning may be used for upgrading a disk or replacing an aging disk with a fresh one. In this case, the clone can r ...
package for
Intel
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-based computers. The software was developed and distributed by the former
PowerQuest
PowerQuest was a software company that produced utility software. It was acquired by Symantec in 2003. PowerQuest's market focus was on management of computer data storage, especially file systems and disk partitions. Their products included ...
Corporation. Drive Image version 7 became the basis for
Norton Ghost 9.0, which was released to retail markets in August 2004. Ghost was a competing product, developed by
Binary Research
Binary Research Ltd was a company founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Murray Haszard in 1991 after the sale of his previous company, B32 Software.
Binary Research initially considered developing competitors to the file transfer programs Blast and ...
, before
Symantec bought the company in 1998. This also explains the different file extensions used for Ghost image files: formerly it was .gho, now in versions 9.0 and above it is .v2i.
Product history
Drive Image version 7 was the last version published under the
PowerQuest
PowerQuest was a software company that produced utility software. It was acquired by Symantec in 2003. PowerQuest's market focus was on management of computer data storage, especially file systems and disk partitions. Their products included ...
corporate banner. It was also the first version to include a native Windows interface for cloning an active
system partition
The system partition and the boot partition (also known as the system volume and the boot volume) are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk drive or solid-state drive that must exist and be properly configured for a computer to oper ...
; prior versions required a
reboot
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into a
DOS
DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems.
DOS may also refer to:
Computing
* Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel
* Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicatio ...
-like environment in order to clone the active partition. In order to clone active partitions without requiring a reboot, Drive Image 7 employed a volume snapshot device driver which was licensed from StorageCraft Technology Corporation.
storagecraft.com
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Drive Image 2002 (version 6) is the last release that allows the creation of a rescue set on floppy disk
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, which can be used to create and restore an image.
See also
*List of disk cloning software
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* List (surname)
Organizations
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* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
External links
Symantec Corporation website
Drive Image v7 review by PCWorld
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