Believe DI6 uses that for a basis for its boot floppies as an example. I
did use that for awhile myself. When I found that there may be problems
recovering some nonspecific NTFS (XP version) partitions with that, I went
to DI7. That uses Windows PE based recovery CD. What I don't like about it
is I can't image from it, only recover. And yes, in XP's environment, its
probably much faster for imaging anyway. Just miss this option.
Remember reading its possible to access a USB connected hard drive in dos if
the bios has the capability of booting from it. Otherwise, no.
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Jonny
"John Barnett MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for that update, Jonny. A lot of the imaging software i use uses
> Caldera DOS. However, i don't use USB external hard drives, so i am not in
> a position to say whether the USB drive is recognised by Caldera DOS or
> any other version of DOS.
>
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> "Jonny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Most image boot recovery CDs made in the last few years do not contain
>> the DOS operating system. Rather, another like Windows CE for instance.
>> Most can access USB and Firewire connected hard drives, and if setup
>> properly, LAN connected hard drives for image recovery purposes.
>> --
>> Jonny
>> "John Barnett MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> You would have to image the hard drive using third party software such
>>> as Acronis or Paragon or even Ghost. Depending upon the amount of disk
>>> space your current XP installation takes the imaging software - acronis
>>> and ghost in particular - can compress the data to fit onto a DVD. If
>>> the software cannot shrink the image to fit on a DVD it will usually
>>> offer to 'span' the image file over a number of CD's or DVD. This is by
>>> far the simlest method of backing up the whole drive.
>>>
>>> In my case i have a triple boot system, XP Home, XP Pro and Vista. Each
>>> system is imaged and stored on DVD. However, XP Pro (because this is the
>>> operating system i use from day to day) is also backed up to a seperate
>>> partition on my hard drive. If i need to re-install XP Pro (via an
>>> Image) then i usually boot up to Windows XP Home, run Acronis or Ghost
>>> and then re-image the XP Pro drive back. You would be able to do a
>>> similar thing with your USB drive 'if' you had a dual boot system. As
>>> you don't have a dual boot system you would have to rely upon the
>>> imaging software's DOS based recovery CD. In this instance i'm not sure
>>> if the USB drive would be accessible. If this is the case you would not
>>> be able to access the image file. You would, however, be able to access
>>> an image from a DVD or CD.
>>>
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>>> "umwhat" <me somewhere@somewhere else.com> wrote in message
>>> news:934B3484-A9E5-454D-9084-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Can I back up my whole harddrive to a USB harddrive E: with Windows
>>>> XP
>>>> Home Edition ? I could use Nero 6.6 , and then if I want a fresh copy
>>>> of my
>>>> whole new installation could I copy the backup on the drive E: ?
>>>>
>>>>
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