Drive image 7 a crap?

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ed4all

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Here in the UK Drive Image7 is still on sale with no sign of Norton
Ghost 9 that I understand has included the taken-over DI7. I have
Drive Image 2002 (not the one that says that it is for Win ... up to
Me) and have successfully used it to duplicate my C drive onto an
additional HD (which works fine as a bootable drive even when
connected on its own).

Reading that DI7 is a much improved version for WinXP (that I use), I
bought it and used it to copy the C drive - the coping took about 20
minutes while still in Windows (the 2002 works by booting and then
coping, taking about 90 minutes). Disaster. The duplicated drive had
files missing/ corrupted, System Restore was crashing, some
configurations gone etc. I tried several duplications but with total
dissatisfaction. Eventually, I used the 2002 version to duplicate my C
drive and, as before, total success. What is wrong with this crap
Drive Image7 or is there anything that I didn't do right? Many thanks
in advance.
 
In my opinion, Ghost 2003 or Norton Ghost Corporate 8.0 are both still better than Drive Image 2002. I had bad images created with Drive Image from drives that Ghost could handle perfectly. Ghost works across my RAID array as well.
 
I use Gost 2003 to copy complete disk to another disk from DOS. Just have to manually connect/swop disks cables etc, but it is simple and relatively quick, and best off al you immediatly know if it works, and from there I stay on the disk copied till next time.
>I do not make use of CD/DVD's.

>I want a working proven copy, not to be surprised later.
 
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