[dba-Tech] Bad drive

I used this application last week on my laptop and I can tell it does
not work....
At least for Windows Vista.

Driveimage XML, uses the shadow copy function from Windows to make a
filecopy (technicaly it does not image a drive). The restore process ran
without any error, but when investigating the drive not much files where
present.
I ran chkdsk on the restored drive and had 72000 floating (tranlated
from dutch) files, chkdsk corrected some entries, but every time I ran
chkdsk I got several thousends of floating files and next time several
thousends of wrong index entries. The system and software registry files
where corrupt and not usable.


For desktops I uses my old quarterdeck image center/partition magic (now
from symantec), but this does not support servers.

I also have recently bought Vcom partition commander for which I'm
pretty satisfied. Only thing I miss is that I can not create disk images
to a file (like Quarterdesk), it's only disk-to-disk.


Greetings.




 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:33 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Bad drive

I have a bad drive that is failing slowly. It is one of my servers and
though all the individual files are backed up I would like to do an
image restore as apposed to a re-install. 

What program would you recommend to do a complete image backup so a new
drive can be image resorted?

One program that I have looked at is DriveImage XML
(http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm) but I have heard nothing good or bad
about this app.

MTIA

Jim

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