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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Surfer who wrote (14335)	11/25/2003 10:23:44 AM
From: Fargonaut	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I agree that making a disk image onto a second hard drive is the way to go. Connecting the second hard drive via USB is fine but it will be slower than putting it inside the computer. Ghost is the imaging program I use, it's a very good one and I like it better than the old version of DriveImage that I used for years. It uses less space on a floppy than DI and can see NTFS partitions without any help. Symantec owns Ghost now so I was able to get it cheap. I bought the current Norton Systemworks from eBay and got a year's antivirus, Ghost, and Speed Disk (probably the best defragmenter) for very little money. There's other stuff that comes with it that I don't use. If you put Ghost on a DOS boot floppy (cleanest and simplest) you will need DOS USB support. Put these lines in your (floppy) config.sys: DEVICE=USBASPI.SYS DEVICE=DI1000DD.SYS To download USBASPI.SYS AND DI1000DD.SYS GO TO computing.net and look for the Panasonic download site address on that page. USB support for DOS is still experimental but it works fine for me. By the way, if you are thinking of booting from the USB external hard disk, it will be harder than you think. To boot from USB, most machines will need the USB drivers in the operating system, and during bootup, you have no OS ergo no drivers. The Bios in some recent systems will recognize USB storage as a disk for booting purposes I think, but not many. You could boot from a CDROM, but if you make your own, you will have to burn an image file on to the CD. This is not an ordinary file, it is one that masquerades as a floppy disk. Most CD burner programs have the capability but you have to know what to look for. F