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Can't Backup To External Harddrive

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oldbutdumb

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😕I bought a Maxtor Personal Storage drive that uses USB 2,0 and I'm trying to use Norton Ghost 2003 to make an image backup of my 80 Gig Hard drive. I run on WXP home edition. The new drive is FAT32 I believe, and the old one is NTFS. I'm making some kind of mistake during the setup for the backup. There is a step where all periferals are listed and it has 2 that use USB 1.1 and my new one that uses USB 2.0 as well as a firewire connector to the DSL modem. The instructions say I must not use a driver for USB 2.0 if any devices are 1.1 and I must use 1.1. When the program reboots to start the backup it keeps trying to install an Iomega USB 1.1 driver and looking for the drive and coming up with the abort/retry/fail line. When I abort the boot process I get a diagnostic screen that says the backup failed. I can't figure if I used the wrong address name or if the Fat 32 has something to do with it or the Iomega driver that Ghost is trying to install. Anyone have this problem?
 
If you have a second computer and a network, I suggest attaching your USB drive to the SECOND PC and doing the image backup across the network. That's a lot easier to get working when you have USB issues with Norton Ghost 2003. It's quite a bit slower, but, at least, it works.
 
Dunno about Ghost, But True Image will do that easily. With the clone function, it will clone the old drive to the new and make it NTFS if necessary.
 
Thanks for the tips. I don't have the second computer on a network with the main one yet. It is my wife's and runs W 98SE. Do you have a download site for True Image, corkyg?
 
If you can't find a solution, just use XP's NTBackup program (you'll have to install it separately for XP Home Edition). Do a full system backup to the external hard drive. If you need to restore your system, you'll have to re-install the basic XP operating system, and then do an NTBackup System Restore operation. It'll take a bit longer than a Ghost restore, but it should work with the hardware you have.
 
Thanks RebateMonger. Are you saying that I need to use the XP disk to get this program? I have installed service pack 2 so that may be an issue. I think it may be the whole problem.
 
😀:music:I got it. I'm not sure how. I installed the NTBackup program from my Win XP disk to the hard drive and left the XP cd in the slot. This time I think I did the same thing that didn't work before but Ghost went ahead and made an image of my hd on the new usb drive. I used the Ghost verify function and it says the copy is perfect. Now the next time I crash this system I should be able to reformat the HD and do a restore. (I hope)
 
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