detecting a USB removable hard drive

[luca]

Hi,

I would like to detect a USB removable hard drive in DOS
(booting with a start up diskette) I would like to create
a Ghost of my primary partition but since my hard drive
has only one partition I cannot create the Ghost. So what
I want to do is to boot in DOS mode and then create the
GHOST in the USB harddrive, but in DOS mode I'm unable to
detect my removable USB harddrive. Is it possible to
detect the USB hard drive in DOS mode? Thanks in advanced
for your help.

 

[CS]

Hi,

I would like to detect a USB removable hard drive in DOS
(booting with a start up diskette) I would like to create
a Ghost of my primary partition but since my hard drive
has only one partition I cannot create the Ghost. So what
I want to do is to boot in DOS mode and then create the
GHOST in the USB harddrive, but in DOS mode I'm unable to
detect my removable USB harddrive. Is it possible to
detect the USB hard drive in DOS mode? Thanks in advanced
for your help.

Yes, it's possible. You'll have to load DOS drivers in a config.sys
file and autoexec.bat file on a DOS bootable disk. A Win98 EBD or
Win98 boot disk works fine. After you boot the machine using the DOS
disk with the USB 2.0 drivers, you can remove the boot disk and insert
the Ghost floppy disk to run the program.

However, if your external USB 2.0 drive is not compatible with Ghost,
you will be unable to copy and\or verify an image made to it.

A Google search should give you several sources of free DOS drivers
for USB 2.0.