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Lee B Quote:In this case, you can clearly see both the internal and external hard drives when you are selecting the source partition. But when I try to see the external drive I want to send the image to, it's just not there!
How are you using Ghost 2003--from its Windows interface? Or, from a boot disk or disc in DOS?
If in DOS, what DOS USB driver are you using to mount and assign drive letters to your external USB device?
Quote:I tried different USB ports on the machine and reboots, the usual stuff, but I cannot figure this one out!
I presume here you are saying nothing helped--got the same negative results that the external USB HDD was still not shown as a destination drive.
Quote:I see the internal NTFS drive (the source) listed as 1:1, but normally I would see 1:2 as the second (external) drive.
How is the external USB drive formatted (is the external HDD formatted?--Ghost can *see* an unformatted partition/HDD as a source, but will not be able to write an image to a file system that's missing or not recognized?)--FAT or NTFS? The 1:1 and 1:2 only apply to NTFS partitions--FAT partitions should have a DOS drive letter assigned.
And, it may just be an oversight when composing your post, but the internal HDD is likely 1:1, but the external HDD should be 2:1 if it's NTFS--it's a second physical drive and each physical drive will have a new number for that first number of the drive designation--so 1:2 would be the first physical drive and the second NTFS partition on that drive.
Quote:Ultimately, I used an 8gig flash drive to do the Ghost operation and that worked fine to make an image
Again, same questions on how you were successful:
How are you using Ghost 2003--from its Windows interface? Or, from a boot disk or disc in DOS?
If in DOS, what DOS USB driver are you using to mount and assign drive letters to your external USB device?
Most likely, there is some incompatibility/conflict between the Western external USB HDD, the on board USB Controller, BIOS support on the Dell Vostro 1500 for USB devices in DOS, and any USB DOS driver that may be loading.
The fact that you where able to use a 8 GB flash drive successfully shows that if the device is compatible with the DOS USB driver, everything can work.
What is the file system on the flash drive? How was the flashdrive shown in Ghost's Destination list--2.1 or a DOS drive letter?
Have you tried other external USB HDD's? What size is the Western Digital HDD (maybe there's a size incompatibility!). In Windows, I presume you and read and write files to the Western HDD?
As you can see--lots of potential variable that may be creating a problem--sometimes we can sort them out--other times--not so lucky! Let us know some more details and maybe the problem will reveal itself.