Yes, got bit by putting my trust in that program. Lost almost everything.
I'll try to keep the 8-12 hour saga short.
I had an image created by Disk Image on my USB drive, and a few updates of my document directory.
I had a WinXP crash that when it came back up said that one of the sub directories in Settings was unreadable. Instantly tried to create a new disk image but the drive went completely after two hours of starting to create the backup. OK I had one only a few months old.
I thought that the Disk Image program was good if you had a bad virus or a hard drive crash. WRONG on the hard drive. It was a FAT32 disk and will not go on to a NTFS format. Found that out after finding out that it will not restore the primary drive with the operating system running. The boot disk is a joke, it contains a few files but no DOS to start things up. Even with booting with DOS 6.22, there was no executable file on it. A bad joke.
I had to get two new drives, one for the operating system and a secondary one to write the image onto, then switch them out. WRONG. WinXP will only format with NTFS, and when going through the pseudo-dos spent 20 minutes formatting it then reported that the disk was too big for FAT32. Same size, 40 Gig. Got brilliant and made it the primary drive and installed WinME, which formatted it as FAT32 without a hiccup, or so I thought. Maybe the cluster size was different than the original drive but...
After 4 hours of restoring the image, it is useless. Most directories are totally screwed up, just garbage throughout the directories.
So I am starting from scratch without my daughter's wedding pictures, laser settings or almost all of my product layout files. I do have some old backup CD's and my updated document files from a more recent file backup to the USB drive. Thank goodness for that.
Just remember that if you have a hard drive crash, unless you already have an identical drive, formatted exactly as the first, DISK IMAGE is worse than useless, it gives a false feeling of security.
I must say that writing this makes me feel a little better, it warns others.
Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)
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