SN41G2 boot to USB HD

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:33:45 -0400, "Frank Hagan"
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 >I don't think you can use a
 >USB device as your boot drive. It has to be something connected to your
 >motherboards IDE

I've used a USB pen drive as a boot device with no problem (just set
the boot device in the bios to USB-HDD), so I can't see that a true
USB HD would be a problem.
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"Mark" <nospam.TakeThisOut@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:<3f2eb1df$0$11384$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>...
 > Just a quick question.
 >
 > Is it possible to boot to an external HD with the SN41G2? I'm thinking of
 > buying an external USB 2.0 HD kit, to mirror my drive. If the main drive
 > fails, will I be able to boot directly from the USB drive?

Yes - in theory. I don't have an USB drive, but the BIOS supports
booting from a number of devices, include USB HDD (check out
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mailhost.net/home/jan_bruun_andersen//FN41S018_BIOS_configuration.html" target="_blank">http://www.mailhost.net/home/jan_bruun_andersen//FN41S018_BIOS_configu...ion.htm</a>
for a complete list of BIOS options).

 > Also....is there backup software that will mirror the drive? I'd like to
 > back up once per week.

What exactly do you mean by mirroring?

A bit-for-bit copy of the whole HDD?

Or a bit-for-bit copy of one or more partitions?

Or a logical copy of one or more partions, that allows you to
shrink/grow the destination partion?

Or a logical copy of one or more partions, that allows you change the
file system type, e.g. from FAT32 to NTFS on-the-fly?

If you have the money, check out the USB HDD's and backup software
from CMS Products (http://www.cmsproducts.com/).

If you do not, then products like Ghost, Drive Image, Drive2Drive,
BootITNG, TrueImage, supports some or all of the above mentioned
mirrot/copy methods. But, they all have "issues". Some do not like USB
drives, some will no backup a running system partition, etc. My only
real experience has been with Acronis TrueImage, and it has problems
with USB and Firewire drives on the SN41G2 when run from the rescue
CD. But if you only need to do the mirroring from Windows, then I
think it will do the trick. You can download a 15 days trial and see
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"Mark" <nospam RemoveThis @nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:<3f2eb1df$0$11384$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>...
 > Just a quick question.
 >
 > Is it possible to boot to an external HD with the SN41G2? I'm thinking of
 > buying an external USB 2.0 HD kit, to mirror my drive. If the main drive
 > fails, will I be able to boot directly from the USB drive?
 >
 > Also....is there backup software that will mirror the drive? I'd like to
 > back up once per week.

USB-HDD is certainly one of the options under the BIOS boot sequence.
I've never tried it, but it's encouraging that the option's there.

I can also highly recommend Norton Ghost. It's saved me several times.
I don't know if you can automate the clone, since it requires a
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What USB pen drive - exactly?
I keep getting the run-around when I ask if various Manufacturer/Models are
bootable.
Thanks
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 > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:33:45 -0400, "Frank Hagan"
 > <frank1946 RemoveThis @mindspring.com> wrote:
 >
  > >I don't think you can use a
  > >USB device as your boot drive. It has to be something connected to your
  > >motherboards IDE
 >
 > I've used a USB pen drive as a boot device with no problem (just set
 > the boot device in the bios to USB-HDD), so I can't see that a true
 > USB HD would be a problem.
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