Restoring PQI drive image

[Rigo]

G'day folks,
Need to restore an image with extension PQI.
Apparently produced by PowerQuest in the days.
Anyone knows about a tool I could use to do this nowadays?

 

[Larry Sabo]

Chat GPT has a thorough description of options.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Ahh yes good old PQDI.....used that a lot back in the day.
So they have their own "deploy tool" that you boot from (used to be from 3.5" removable drive back then...before USB drives)....

Doing a quick Google....since Symantec (symant-suck)....bought and ruined PowerQuest so many years ago....I can't find a direct download link through Symantec. Can find a few hits from those questionable download sites....I guess try one of those but scan the software first and make your bootable drive (like USB)....on a computer you isolate , format and reload windows on after.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Maybe try the ISO from here...

PowerQuest Drive Image Professional 2.0 : PowerQuest Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is a copy of PowerQuest's Drive Image Professional 2.0, a package of Drive Magic & Partition Magic on separate CDs.

archive.org

 

[Rigo]

Maybe try the ISO from here...

PowerQuest Drive Image Professional 2.0 : PowerQuest Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is a copy of PowerQuest's Drive Image Professional 2.0, a package of Drive Magic & Partition Magic on separate CDs.

archive.org

Great thanks!!
Dloaded!
I'll try them and report

Ahh yes good old PQDI.....used that a lot back in the day.
So they have their own "deploy tool" that you boot from (used to be from 3.5" removable drive back then...before USB drives)....

Doing a quick Google....since Symantec (symant-suck)....bought and ruined PowerQuest so many years ago....I can't find a direct download link through Symantec. Can find a few hits from those questionable download sites....I guess try one of those but scan the software first and make your bootable drive (like USB)....on a computer you isolate , format and reload windows on after.

 

[Joep]

Used to work for PQ

 

[HCHTech]

Come on, @Rigo - don't leave us hanging - did it work?

 

[NETWizz]

Last I heard Power Quest Drive Image became swallowed up by Norton and re-branded Ghost sometime around Ghost 9 ... about 20 years ago.

If push comes to shove, you might be able to get an old build of Ghost