Drive Image 2002 is hard disk imaging/backup software from Powerquest, and provides several options for making a complete copy (or "image") of a hard disk or of a hard disk partition. This image is a single file, typically compressed to save space, that contains all the information required to recreate a disk/partition on a new drive or to restore a partition to the same drive.

Drive Image makes an uncompressed or compressed copy of FAT (Win95 through Win ME), NTFS (Win XP/2000), or Linux Ext2/Swap partitions, and saves them to another partition, hard disk, or to removable media, including CDR/RW's and Iomega Zip/Jaz disks. Drive Image can also save images to a disk on another computer via a TCP/IP network connection. Drive Image operates from within Windows, to make images of all hard disk partitions except the boot partition. Images saved to a networked drive are also made from DOS.

To make an image of the boot partition on your hard disk, Drive Image boots your system to DOS before creating this image. Since boot partition back ups are made from DOS, backup devices without DOS mode drivers (USB zip drives and USB or Firewire CDRW drives, for example) won't work. However, you can save images to your hard disk, split into 650 or 700 mb parts, and move them to the USB/Firewire device using your cd authoring software. You will need to reinstall Windows to access usb/firewire drives before restoring files after a complete hard disk failure

Drive Image does not allow you to make partial or incremental backup of files changed since previous backups. In addition to fully restoring a hard disk, the included Image Explorer software allows you to restore individual files or directories to its original or a different location.

If you want to back up your computer to a networked drive, you must use Boot Disk Builder first, which will walk you through the process of creating a DOS boot disk for your computer, which also loads drivers for your network card and maps a network drive to a local drive letter, allowing you to save your image file to a network drive.
The boot disk can be a floppy disk or a "virtual" boot disk saved to your hard drive. Drive Image then uses the "virtual" boot disk when it reboots to DOS prior to backing up your disk image to a network drive.

You can also use Boot Disk Builder to build boot diskettes that will run DiskImage 2002 standalone and copy the source disk to an external hard drive.
The procedure is to build the boot diskette as per the DiskImage Autorun menu and then modify the first diskette for use with DOS USB support.