I have been looking at USB HD's specifically the MAXTOR, WD and ACOMDATA 160G USB 2.0 drives ... also BYTECC Me-320 external Drive Kits.
There are all sorts of glitz and glitter but no meat to sink my teeth into to make a decision ... has anyone dived into these devices and done things like make ghost images, Or figured out what file format is being used (FAT32, NTFS)
I spoke with one person who has a 120G WD and he says it is formated as FAT32 ... this must be one of those extended fat formats because FAT32 only does 32G normally
I need to be able to make ghost images from 40-60G HD's
issue the Ghost version (systemworks 2003) doesn't recognize NTFS destination drives unless you are doing a drive to drive transfer ... not sure if a ghost update will correct this? Fat32 would work but the larger the drive the larger the clusters which shouldn't matter for images but...
issue Ghost uses DOS to do its magic ... DOS doesn't know about the USB interface without some sort of driver ... then don't you also need a Dos driver to find the USB device ... in this case the external HD?
I also need to load 10+ DVD's worth of data which is in the form of 6000+ files each (not good if these drives are in Fat32)
There are all sorts of glitz and glitter but no meat to sink my teeth into to make a decision ... has anyone dived into these devices and done things like make ghost images, Or figured out what file format is being used (FAT32, NTFS)
I spoke with one person who has a 120G WD and he says it is formated as FAT32 ... this must be one of those extended fat formats because FAT32 only does 32G normally
I need to be able to make ghost images from 40-60G HD's
issue the Ghost version (systemworks 2003) doesn't recognize NTFS destination drives unless you are doing a drive to drive transfer ... not sure if a ghost update will correct this? Fat32 would work but the larger the drive the larger the clusters which shouldn't matter for images but...
issue Ghost uses DOS to do its magic ... DOS doesn't know about the USB interface without some sort of driver ... then don't you also need a Dos driver to find the USB device ... in this case the external HD?
I also need to load 10+ DVD's worth of data which is in the form of 6000+ files each (not good if these drives are in Fat32)