Features:

Quickly prepare backup images

Back up your entire computer, including the OS, programs, files and settings. Scheduling allows you to choose to back up a drive immediately or lets you to schedule backups for the future and choose a regular schedule to repeat backups.

Make backup simple with a user-friendly Windows interface and step-by-step wizards

Save your backup to virtually any internal or external drive (CD or DVD burners, USB or FireWire devices, network locations)

Schedule automatic backups for any time you select, view the backups you have scheduled and and view the history of backups completed on the drive

Mount your backup as a driver letter for easy access

Use ˇ§hot imagingˇ¨ to create backups without ever leaving Windows

Easily create exact hard drive duplicates

Capture everything on your hard drive, precisely as it is, using SmartSector Technology. SmartSector imaging has several key advantages over file-based copying solutions. Those advantages include improved performance, precise hard-drive imaging, preservation of Windows hard-drive optimizations, and flexibility.

Protect all the information on your computer, not just application files

Compressed drive images saves valuable disk space

Simply and safely restore your system

Have the complete backup you need when errors or system failures occur. PowerQuest Drive Image 7 is like buying insurance ˇV you never know when a disaster will happen. With Drive Image each backup takes a complete image of your hard drive or just the partitions you specify including OS, programs, files, and settings. Drive Image allows you to rest easy knowing that your data is safe and secure. You don't have to worry about selecting each file or program or trying to remember what you chose to save ˇV everything is automatically backed up.

Restore your entire system or just selected files ˇV you choose

Transfer all your data from one computer to another without hassle

Basic and advanced views

Drive Image includes two views. The basic view is the default and provides quick, easy access to the most commonly used Drive Image features. It incudes a menu bar, icons for common tasks and a shortcut for switching views.
The advanced view provides a quick overview of the drives on the machine, backup jobs you have created, the backup history for each drive, and Drive Image-related event messages. You can also perform some additional tasks from the advanced view that are not available from the basic view.

Copying drives

The Copy Drives feature helps you copy the contents of one hard drive to another. You can copy your operating system, applications, and data to a new hard drive. Copied partitions are expanded to occupy the same proportion of the new hard disk as they do on the original hard drive. For example, if you had two 1 GB FAT 32 partitions on a 2 GB hard disk and you copied both partitions to a new 8 GB hard disk, each partition would be expanded to 4 GB on the new hard disk. You can choose to copy an entire hard drive or selected partitions.

You can use the Copy Drives feature when you upgrade to a larger hard drive or when you add a second hard drive and keep the original. You should not use the Copy Drives feature to set up a hard drive that will be used in another computer.

System Requirements:

Windows XP Home and Professional, Windows 2000 Professional
Pentium Compatible or higher
256 MB (32 MB for Windows 95c or higher, NT Workstation 4.0 (SP6a), Windows Me)
45 MB (35 MB for Windows 95c or higher, NT Workstation 4.0 (SP6a), Windows Me)
CD-ROM drive
Windows XP, 2000: Requires Microsoft .NET Framework. .NET requires an additional 40 MB of disk space