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[RT] Re: Off Topic: Backup/Restore using USB hard disk under W2000



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Earl,

Take a look at XactCopy @:  http://www.duocor.com/xactcopy/

Stu

--- In realtraders@xxxx, "EAdamy" <eadamy@xxxx> wrote:
> My HP 8GB external tape drive is giving up the ghost and I'm 
seriously
> considering an external USB hard drive. For around $200 I can buy a 
2.5" USB
> drive enclosure and 20 GB 2.5" drive with a footprint not much 
larger than a
> tape cartridge: 3"W x 5.8" L x 1" D. Firewire (IEEE 1394) looks 
much faster
> than USB but I need to backup 2 laptops, each with 10 GB drives, 
and the
> older IBM 770 Thinkpad does not support Firewire.
> 
> From what I can tell, Windows 2000 treats USB drives as just another
> (non-bootable) disk. Since USB devices are not bootable, I'm 
wondering what
> the best solution is for creating and restoring backup files, 
especially
> operating system files, under Windows 2000? From what I could tell, 
Norton
> Ghost which I own, must run under DOS to restore system files.
> 
> Earl


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