| Xylophone 2004-06-10, 5:46 pm |
| I have a new Dell 4600 with XP Home and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I used
PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 on my previous Win 98SE PC to clone theb hard
drive onto CD-R's. It worked ok. It is supposed to work with XP Home on my
new PC, but first time I ran it, I got an error message 1513 after 3 minutes
of the first disc about a 'bad' something (I regeret I no longer have the
details) to do with the disc (so either the CD-R or the HD). The HD is
clean, according to CHDSK. I raised this error with Symantec, who advised
this a 'very unique' error for DI 2002, and is normally encountered with
Partition Magic (which I don't have). They simply advised I use DI Version
7 as this is 'for XP'. Ok. The problem I am now wrestling with is the CD
burner. I did have use Easy CD Creator basic on my Win98SE PC with DI 2002
reasonably successfully (it cloned the HD, although several attempts were
sometimes necessary). So I installed Easy CD Creator onto the XP machine,
but unaccountably, I did not check it before doing so for updates/upgrades
for XP. At all events, when I ran Drive Image 2002 on my XP PC, I got the
'bad' message, which I associate with using Easy CD Creator for Win98SE. So
I uninstalled Easy CD Creator, leaving DI 2002 on the PC. The PC came with
another burner, Sonic RecordNow!, and my question is whether I could/should
use that with DI2002, or whether an updated Easy CD Creator (I can download
the XP stuff) would be better. I really don't know the difference between
the two programs. PowerQuest do talk about Easy CD Creator on their web
site, and my sense is it is a more powerful program than RecordNow! and thus
better suited to DI2002??? I would now like to run DI 2002 again (and not
upgrade to Version 7) if I know I have a reliable CD burner, given my
experience. So should I go with Sonic RecordNow!! or Easy CD Creator???
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