Hello, I am trying to clone my laptop's HD to a USB connected Hard disk using Ghost 2003. My USB-HD is a TOSHIBA MK4018GAS, enclosed in a USB interface chinese casing which came with "In-Systems Designs" drivers for Windows XP. Device Manager reports the connection as USB Storage Adapter V2 (TPP), driver made by In-Systems Design Inc. Now Ghost does not recognize my HD while doing its DOS routine. I have experimented, to the best of my expertise, with DOS USB drivers like DUSE, Motto Hairu's USBASPI.SYS, and checked/unchecked Ghosts USB 1.1 DOS option. I tried and have enabled/disabled "legacy USB support" in my BIOS etc etc. Is there any other, XP/non-dos way, to clone my internal HD to this USB-HD?? All I'm trying to do is to upgrade to this new 40 GB in place of my 20GB internal. I dont' want to reinstall xp or anything, I'd really wouldn't want to clone to CDs. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

If you are upgrading to another drive try this... Setup your new drive as a Slave drive to the existing system. Use Ghost and save the image onto the new drive. Restart the system when done and then manually copy the Ghost image file back to your older smaller drive. Then switch jumpers and make your new drive the master drive and your old drive the slave. Run Ghost and use the image you copied onto the older smaller drive to image the newer drive. I think that should work for you if your older drive has the extra space....

Thanks Lucid, but I'm sorry, I really don't understand. :( How can I set up my new drive as slave when it's a USB-connected drive? You mean set it up as slave using jumpers and let it still be connected USB? Won't it still be a USB connected drive? How will GHOST recognize it in DOS then? Could you please explain it a bit more?

I think he meant to remove the drive from the USB box and then install it as an IDE drive.

Okay, this is what I understand, please correct and help me... 1. Create ghost-image on the same ISD OldHD (where? on a new partition? have only one primary partition, create secondary?) 1. Remove the NewHD from casing, change jumpers to make it slave (why?) 2. Remove OldHD from system. 3. Install NewHD in the system 4. Boot system from Ghost floppy (DOS) Now this leaves me with a system HD with nothing on. How do I transfer Ghost image from the removed OldHD to this installed NewHD? I still am in darkness! :(