Drive Image (software)

Drive Image (PQDI) is a software disk cloning package for x86-based computers. The software was developed and distributed by the former PowerQuest Corporation, beginning in 1997.^[1] It runs under MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows environment.^[2]

Drive Image

Initial release	September 1997; 27 years ago (1997-09)
Operating system	MS-DOS Microsoft Windows
Platform	x86

Drive Image version 7 became the basis for Norton Ghost 9.0, which was released in August 2004.

Overview

Drive Image 1.0 was released in September 1997.^[1]

Drive Image 2002 (version 6) is the last release that allows the creation of a rescue set on floppy disk, which can be used to create and restore an image.

Drive Image version 7 was the last version published under the PowerQuest corporate brand. It was also the first version to include a native Windows interface for cloning an active system partition; prior versions required a reboot into a DOS-like environment in order to clone the active partition.^[2] 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.^{[3][failed verification]}

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, before Symantec bought the company in 1998.

See also

• List of disk cloning software