Hi Everyone,

I'm new in here and I would need some help. I'm trying to make a small Ghost machine with form my 80Gb USB-HDD, I mean, I'm planning to run Ghost from my USB HDD and save images to the same drive( I call it : the portable ghost machine). So far I was able to make ny USB bootable. I have a copy of Ghost on my USB-HDD.

SO far everything works but..

It takes about 40 min to Ghost a40Gb Hdd with only 2Gb of files on it.

Than i tried a 80Gb Hdd with about 45Gb and It took almost 2HRS !! to do it.

Is there a way to speed this process up?

Thank you.

How would I check that?

Should I add drivers to the config.sys?

Thx

tom29 wrote on May 14^th, 2007 at 8:44am:

Please reveal the full contents of both your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.  Next, you need to determine your particular USB 2.0 host controller and USB 2.0 device controller specifications.  Those two tables below illustrate the relevant specifications I have gleaned while trying to ensure compatibility of USB 2.0 external HDD enclosure kits with DOS-based Norton Ghost 2003:





From what I have been able to tell up to now, USB 2.0 host controllers have eventually shaken out to either or - and no meaningful number of others thusfar.  On the host end of the "bridge", the useful items are in properties of only those terminal "branch(es)" on the Universal Serial Bus controllers "tree" containing the word .  On the destination end of the "bridge", the useful items are in properties of only those terminal "branch(es)" on the Universal Serial Bus controllers "tree" containing the phrase .

To take a shot at revealing the particulars of both your and your , follow the procedure below:

(1) go to Desktop and right click on My Computer;

(2) drop down to left click on Manage;

(3) in left pane, expand System Tools;

(4) in left pane, drop down to left click on Device Manager;

(5) for both USB controllers and mass storage devices in right pane, expand Universal Serial Bus controllers;

(6) for USB Mass Storage Devices, skip down to (7) - else for USB 2.0 controllers, focus on those lines containing either the abbreviation or the word , then go to (7);

(7) right click on any such lines that drop down, then left click on Properties;

(8) left click on the Details tab;

(9) left click on the dropdown menu containing Device Instance Id; and

(10) left click on and carefully transcribe the last two lines in the window, then please REPORT BACK. To be overly generous, drop down two more lines and repeat for .

The image below reveals the functional USB 2.0 controller on the Macally PHR-100A enclosure (note that on my Dell Dimension 8300, I have three USb controllers listed - including the poisonous Intel 80281EB):

El_Pescador wrote on May 14^th, 2007 at 9:33am:

OK, your PCI-to-USB host controller is USB VIA-compliant (as opposed to being USB NEC-compliant - see link
below).  So now, you need to figure out what flavor your USB external HDD Mass Storage Device is, i.e, NEC, ALi, SiS, VIA, et cetera.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1148232044/10#10

tom29 wrote on May 14^th, 2007 at 3:18pm:

Based on the information above, I strongly suspect that you have a Western Digital USB2 External HDD of some kind (see link below).  In my experience, matching a VIA-compliant USB PCI-to-host controller and a WD USB device controller requires the use of Nightowl's Panasonic Universal USB Driver routine for conventional service with Norton Ghost 2003.  Whereas booting into a "cold-imaging" DOS-dependent product from a USB Mass Storage Device is somewhat unconventional to say the least, it will be most fascinating indeed if you do manage to make it work.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1114059498/26#26

Hi All,

Still no luck

When I use the USB 2.20 driver my systems hangs. When using th older one it comes up with Di1000dd driver missing or corrupted and same for command.com

Can you guys post a working config.sys and autoexec?

Again, I'm trying to make a small ghos machine: running form the USB HDD and writing images to the same USB HDD,


Thank you