I have read several posts from madmaxusb. I have found them helpful to an extent, but when I actually try to access my USB HDD, I am unable to access it. I get the error "invalid media type", which may be because it's an ntfs partition, but that doesn't matter with ghost. I am trying to store a ghost image on the hdd to accelerate a restore. When I go into ghost, it shows the drive letter, but when I look in the drive it shows nothing. My USB Drive enclosure is manufactured by Manhattan. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Ghost is still bound by DOS 6.22 and will not be able to write to the NTFS partition on the drive. My suggestion would be to use the virtual partion method that the newer versions of Ghost use. Otherwise, you are stuck with doing a disk to disk image, and not a disk/partition to file image.

Try Powerquests Drive Image 2002, this does not use DOS O/S based boot disks like Ghost

Kill Roy, Thanks for the help. I feel pretty stupid for not realizing that DOS doesn't like NTFS, I put in a HDD FAT32 formatted and it worked fine, just a little slow though...I think the machine only has USB 1.1. Thanks Phil

I have an 80g external Maxtor 7200rpm that I am trying to use to backup my Win98se before my drive goes out, I need the USB Dos drivers for it I will try to use the link you found. I have 2 or 3 different dos startup disks from 6.22 MS dos down to 3.0. Do you just put the drivers on the startup disk and try it. I am sort of new at this part of the game. Maxtor of course does not support the DOS drivers at all. This should not hurt the Maxtor only just not be able to read it. The link was one found in a 2002 post it was www.pocketech.net/downloads. Do you all know of this Thanks Lyle