Please help me with Drive Image!!!

[jstultz]

Ok, I had a problem earlier with my hard drive flaking out. Got Drive Image, and managed to copy an image to my other hard drive before it completely crashed and burned.

The other hard drive is an IBM 45GB Deskstar drive, formatted in NTFS.

Got a new hard drive, this one is an IBM 60GB Deskstar drive. Using the diskettes I created in Drive Images install for rescue boot, I booted up with the 60gb as master and 45gb as slave, and tried to do a recover image. To my surprise, the fscking program won't recognize the NTFS partition. So, conveniently, I cannot get the image off of the disk. Trying to find a way to boot into SOMETHING that will read the NTFS drive, figuring I can copy the image to the 60gb drive formatted as FAT. Problem is, my other desktop is old and is only Win98, and the only other computer I have is my dad's company laptop running NT4 SP5, and figured if I could create a bootable floppy that would read NTFS that woud work. Problem is I can't figure out how on earth to do that (not exactly familiar with NT4).

I would use the Windows XP CD to do it, but I can't freakin find it (stupid I know).

Tried contacting the PowerQuest people to support the damned software, but of course they charge $30 an incident or $2.95/min for telephone support, and the manual that came with it is completely useless.

Has anyone experienced similar problems or know any solutions?

PLEASE help this is my family's main machine and it's been down for 3 or 4 days now, getting unbearable.

 

[corkyg]

If you have Drive Image 2002, there should be no problem with it reading a NTFS drive.

 

[Tal]

I could maybe make images of my Drive Image 2002 boot disks and send them to you, otherwise I would make a boot floppy with NTFS for dos. Free utility just search on Google, it will allow you to read the NTFS partition in DOS and then you can copy over the image file like you indicated. -ADAM

Here is the link BTW, with info and download for NTFS for dos... Link

 

[Double Trouble]

There's no way (at least that I know of) to make a bootable floppy using any MS product that will let you access an NTFS volume. MS doesn't want people to know you can do that, it sort of defeats the whole "secure" portion of NTFS. There is a utility called NTFS for Dos (which you can snag here) that will allow you to boot a floppy and access an NTFS partition.

Also, you could use partition magic 7 (on a boot disk or bootable CD) to simply convert the NTFS drive to a FAT32 volume so you can access it from a normal boot disk.