USB Hard Drive

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BeeFarmer

I am looking for a USB Hard Drive that will boot up on the USB Port. This
drive
would be booted then I would run ghost and re-image failed units or re-image
the current drive on a unit. The USB must not require any drivers as it
must
allow the Bios to see the USB Hard drive and boot up. It there any USB HDs
out there that will work like this and if so your assistance in pointing me
to a
20 - 40 GB unit would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Bob

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BeeFarmer said:
I am looking for a USB Hard Drive that will boot up on the USB Port. This
drive
would be booted then I would run ghost and re-image failed units or re-image
the current drive on a unit. The USB must not require any drivers as it
must
allow the Bios to see the USB Hard drive and boot up. It there any USB HDs
out there that will work like this and if so your assistance in pointing me
to a
20 - 40 GB unit would be greatly appreciated.
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You'd have a much easier time booting from a floppy or CD, rather than
attempting to boot from the USB drive. Plus you won't have to monkey
with any BIOS settings either.


-WD
 
Thanks will, unfortunately these units don't have floppy's or CD on them.
The
are XPe embedded devices that look like POS units. They have touch screens
and very little else. They are designed for folks to hit an internet site,
tap a few,
screen buttons and that is about it. They have 256 CF on them, so you can
say they are thin clients..

Thanks...

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OhioBeeFarmer
Getting kids involved in Beekeeping
http://www.homestead.com/BeeKeepers/BeesRUs.html
http://www.homestead.com/BeeKeepers/Opening.html
 
Thanks will, unfortunately these units don't have floppy's or CD on them.
The are XPe embedded devices that look like POS units. They have
touch screens and very little else. They are designed for folks to hit
an internet site, tap a few, screen buttons and that is about it.
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That could be a real problem because the bios does
need to understand how to boot a bootable USB drive.

How easy is it to at least connect to the drive inside ?
You could likely restore an image it the drive on a
different system with more options with floppys/CD etc.
They have 256 CF on them, so you can say they are thin clients..
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They may have some mechanism for running stuff into them designed in.

Presumably they do have USB since you're asking about that.
They may have bootable USB drive support already there. There
does need to be support for USB booting in the system bios.
 
Thanks will, unfortunately these units don't have floppy's or CD on them.
The
are XPe embedded devices that look like POS units. They have touch screens
and very little else. They are designed for folks to hit an internet site,
tap a few,
screen buttons and that is about it. They have 256 CF on them, so you can
say they are thin clients..

Thanks...
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In that case, why not pop out the CF and put it into an adapter for
cloning on a secondary PC? The adapter must support writing to the boot
sectors. (I've had reports of an USB CF adapter that was unable to do
this, while I successfully used a pccard adapter for similar work.) You
may need an intermediate connector too, for wear&tear if you clone many
devices.

/Rolf
 
Thanks for the follow up. These units we use do have USB boot support as
we do use
the USB device currently that boots up. The reason I am looking for a Hard
Drive is
because we have other units that have hard drives and not CF. I was just
mentioning
CF but could of expanded to Hard drives I guess. I realize there are other
devices and means
of skinning this cat but I need a USB Hard Drive to maintain all my images.
At some point
when Symantec releases 8.0 I will boot up on a JetFlash unit and use a
shared drive on a network.

But for now if I have to go on the road and need a USB Boot I prefer a LARGE
Hard Drive... I do
have a CD rom I use... that boots directly... but that is too small for my
images... Thanks.. if anyone
knows of a HD that can boot from a unit that has a BIOS that allow USB
booting please update
me...

Many Thanks to all that have replied!!!!

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OhioBeeFarmer
Getting kids involved in Beekeeping
http://www.homestead.com/BeeKeepers/BeesRUs.html
http://www.homestead.com/BeeKeepers/Opening.html
 
I think Ghost can make boot CD that has the USB drivers on it so either way
you are OK. You put the CD in, the DOS version of Ghost starts and loads the
USB drivers needed to access the USB drive. It then allows you to navigate
the external drive to find the right backup image.

I know it can also make a similar disc that allows you to restore from a
mapped drive over a network because that saved my day recently.
 
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