Preparation
1 Before creating an image with Drive Image, use a disk utility program such as a
thorough ScanDisk or Norton’s Disk Doctor to identify and repair any errors on your
hard disk.
Windows NT Workstation and Windows 2000 users should run CHKDSK /F.
2 You may also choose to run a disk defragmenting utility to further optimize your hard
drive.
3 You should disable virus detection in the BIOS before creating an image file.
If virus protection is enabled, Drive Image may hang after you click Finish.
4 Check to ensure that the drive where you want to create an image is available under
DOS. You can see the available drives by clicking Browse at the Name Image File
screen. (See step 6 on page 16 for additional information.) You may need to set up
removable media or create boot disks to access network drives before you can create
an image.
Creating Image Files on CD-R or CD-RW
Drive Image enables you to create image files directly on CD-R media. However, you
must meet the following requirements, or your CD-R drive will not be available as a
destination for an image file.
• You must have an IDE or SCSI CD-R or CD-RW drive. USB and FireWire CD-R
drives are not supported.
• Load HIMEM.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file.
• Do not load EMM386.EXE in your CONFIG.SYS file.
• Run PQPACKET.EXE before running the Drive Image executable, PQDI. If you run
Drive Image from the main installation directory or from the rescue disks,
PQPACKET will run automatically. If you run Drive Image from a different
directory, you should browse for PQPACKET and run it manually before running
Drive Image. If you run Drive Image from a different drive, you may want to create a
batch file to run PQPACKET and then start Drive Image.
• If you create an image on CD-RW media, it must be empty and unformatted.
Creating an Image File
1 Run a thorough ScanDisk on your drives before imaging them.
2 At the Drive Image main screen, click Create Image.
The Select Source Drive screen appears.
3 Select the disks that include the partitions you want to include in the image file.
You can click All Disks to select partitions from every hard disk on your machine.
4 Click Next.
The Select Source Partitions screen appears. It displays all the partitions on the disks
that you selected. The partition map near the top of the screen is a graphic display of
your hard disk. It includes a blue indicator for the 2 GB boot code boundary and a
black indicator for the 1024 cylinder limit. The indicators can be useful when you are
creating partitions that need to be bootable, since many operating systems require that
boot code be located somewhere within the first 2 GB of the disk.
5 Select the partitions you wish to include in the image file (the source partitions) from
the partition list, or click Select All to automatically select all partitions.
You may need to scroll to view all the partitions on your machine. Note that if you
have more than one hard disk on your machine, the first column in the partition list
shows the physical hard disk where the partition is located.
To deselect partitions, click again on a partition or click Select None to deselect all
partitions at once.
6 Click Next.
7 Type the desired path and image filename in the Image File field (for example,
D:\\MYIMAGE.PQI).
You must save your image file to a partition that you are not including in your image
file. You can click Browse to find the directory where you want to save the image
file. You should click Browse to select a CD-R or CD-RW drive because you cannot
just type the CD-R drive letter to save an image to CD. CD drives will appear in the
list as \\\\.\\pqcdx\\name of drive, where x is the number of the CD drive.
You can save an image to a hidden NTFS, FAT, or FAT32 partition by choosing it
from the New Image File dialog box that appears when you click Browse. A hidden
NTFS partition will appear in the Drives list as \\\\.\\Diskn.Partm, where n is the number
of the disk and m is the number of the partition on that disk. Drive and partition
numbers begin with zero, so if an NTFS partition were the third partition on the first
disk, it would appear as \\\\.\\Disk0.Part2. To further identify the hidden partition, the
volume label will display, if available.
Make sure there is no existing file with the same name, unless you want the existing
file to be overwritten. Drive Image uses .PQI as the default image filename extension.
IMPORTANT! Do not include spaces or extended characters in the filename, or you
may not be able to access the image file from Drive Image, DOS, or
the Drive Image File Editor.
You may need to create DOS boot diskettes to access network drives while running
Drive Image. Your network administrator can help you get the correct network
drivers to copy onto the first Drive Image rescue disk.
8 (Optional) Type brief comments about your image file in the Image File Comments
field.
Image file comments cannot exceed 232 characters. Drive Image will automatically
insert information about the drive, partition, and label.
9 Click Next.
10 Select the desired compression level.
Drive Image estimates the size of the image file for each level of compression. If you
are creating an image file on removable media, Drive Image also estimates the
number of media that will be required to save the image file. The numbers displayed
are only estimates; the actual size for compressed images will vary according to how
well the data on the disk compresses.
• No Compression is usually the fastest method for creating an image file and is
useful if storage space is not an issue. However, if you are saving your image file
to a busy network drive or to a relatively slow removable media device, high
compression may be faster than no compression since there is less data to write to
the file. Drive Image selects No Compression by default.
• Low compression offers a 40% average compression ratio.
• High compression offers a 50% average compression ratio.
Image files created with the current version of Drive Image are not compatible with
earlier versions. That is, you cannot read Drive Image 4.0 images with earlier
versions of Drive Image. Drive Image 4.0 can read images created with earlier
versions of Drive Image.
11 Click Next.
Drive Image displays all the information you have entered to this point.
To modify any settings, click Back.
12 (Optional) Click Advanced Options to split an image file into multiple files (for
removable media), to disable file system error-checking or SmartSector copying, to
password protect your image file, to verify the integrity of the image file after it is
created, or to verify disk writes.
See “Advanced Options” on page 20 for additional information.
13 Click Finish to begin creating the image file.
If you entered a name of a current file (step 6), Drive Image displays a message that
<path and filename> already exists. You can replace the existing file or choose a new
filename. If you click Replace, the existing image file will be deleted immediately.
If Drive Image detects that you are saving your image file to a floppy drive or
removable media, it enables a media-spanning feature that spreads the image file over
a series of disks. You must have at least 100K of available space on each disk in the
series. If you use the media-spanning feature, be sure to number the disks in order,
since you must insert them in sequence when restoring the image file.
The Creating the Image dialog appears:
Upon completion, the following message appears: “Image was copied successfully to
file: <image filename>.“
14 Click OK to return to the Drive Image main screen.
IMPORTANT! Because operating system conflicts can result from different hardware
configurations, you should not restore the image you just created on a
system with different hardware.
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