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. It runs under MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows environment.

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 on September 1997.

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. 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.

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.