Try a DOS boot disk with -

pqdi.exe
pqdi.ovl
pqdi.pqg
pqdi.rtc
mouse.com
mouse.ini

- on it. All fits on one floppy.

This lets you choose compression level also, like in old PQDI.

(I use DR-DOS 7.0; nice & small - h**p://www.hellasystems.de/ftp/Utilities/BootDisk/DrDos70/drdflash.exe).



Last edited by FrogBait4 at Aug 19 2002, 08:55 AM

How often do you use DI ? It would not take you to long to unplug the USB devices, if you don't need access to them...

Well, do you have the latest DOS drivers for your USB equipment :rolleyes: ?
Ohh, you don't ? :o Then I guess thats whats causing the error msg :P

well, I want to have DI run every couple of nights, and I want it to run in the mioddle of the night. I do have the latest drivers, and I don't want to have to unplug stuff just to make an image.

I guess I will just stay with DI v.5.0

Why would you want to copy entire drive every few days???

I only copy before questionable/major software addition...Like M$ upgrades... :D

[Why would you want to copy entire drive every few days???]

Why? Why wouldn't I if I could? I guess you never lost all your files before. You never know when something like a virus will hit. Since it takes no brain power to run a scheduled task, and system resourses are at a minimum at 2 AM, I make an image every other day. It writes over the old image, so I never have an image older than 48 hours.

Again, why wouldn't I do that? What good is an image that is old?

I never lost all my files because I copy all new or changed files to CD-R every 648MB...24 CDs worth so far...Includes bookmarks, address book, emails...All new software, all processor work, etc...

*Only* thing on my C:/ drive is the bare O/S...All data files are on a 2nd HDD...

...Because I *have* lost HDDs, several of them...

I can restore a bare O/S in an hour to my configuration. Or I can take an image made of my system before last software upgrade/install and restore/copy that.

well, it seems 10x easier to schedule DI to backup to my second HD every 48 hours.