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Talkin Horse
I just installed Ghost 10 on my Dell Dimension (desktop) 9100 w/SATA RAID 1
(data mirror). I tried a backup from c: to a big USB hard drive, and that
worked fine. Then I tried booting from the CD-ROM, which booted up okay and
could access c:, except it couldn't "see" the USB drive. I rebooted with
another brand of USB drive attached, Maxtor instead of Western Digital, and
got same result. I tried again with a Lexar USB key to see whether I could
access any USB directory device at all, and that was okay. I found two
caveats in the doc, neither of which I violated: 1) USB device must be
connected at boot time, and 2) Attach directly to PC and not to a hub. So I
don't know why this wouldn't work, unless it involves some subtlety of the
chipset or architecture of this model Dell. The Western Digital drive offers
a dual connect option, USB or Firewire, so I tried the same test with the
Firewire connection, and, Surprise!, it worked. So I've got working disaster
recovery, and maybe this tip will be useful to someone else. And I'd still
like to know why I can't access the USB disks from a recovery boot, and
whether there's anything I can do about that.
(data mirror). I tried a backup from c: to a big USB hard drive, and that
worked fine. Then I tried booting from the CD-ROM, which booted up okay and
could access c:, except it couldn't "see" the USB drive. I rebooted with
another brand of USB drive attached, Maxtor instead of Western Digital, and
got same result. I tried again with a Lexar USB key to see whether I could
access any USB directory device at all, and that was okay. I found two
caveats in the doc, neither of which I violated: 1) USB device must be
connected at boot time, and 2) Attach directly to PC and not to a hub. So I
don't know why this wouldn't work, unless it involves some subtlety of the
chipset or architecture of this model Dell. The Western Digital drive offers
a dual connect option, USB or Firewire, so I tried the same test with the
Firewire connection, and, Surprise!, it worked. So I've got working disaster
recovery, and maybe this tip will be useful to someone else. And I'd still
like to know why I can't access the USB disks from a recovery boot, and
whether there's anything I can do about that.