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USB in DOS
Name: JayBro Date: August 3, 2002 at 08:01:07 Pacific
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I am using Win98SE,but since this is a DOS question, I thought I would like to pose it here. I would like to image my harddrive with GHOST and burn it to my cd-rw drive, but it is a USB drive. Any way to load the DOS drivers for USB in DOS............Ghost works in a DOS environment...
Name: redsquyrl Date: August 3, 2002 at 22:51:41 Pacific
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The Norton Ghost User's Guide states: "Note: Norton Ghost does not support writing to a CD-ROM drive that is connected with a USB cable." (pg 18)
I'm trying to do the same, but using a Zip 250 USB - the boot disk created doesn't recognize the drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: fred6008 Date: August 6, 2002 at 21:31:26 Pacific
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I have just been through that on a laptop. I made a CD-ROM size logical drive E: and saved the ghost image file to it. Then I loaded windows and copied the file to a USB drive. The ghost floppy also had a driver for using interlnk and copying the file to another computer which I did not have to try.
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