Try to bear with me here as this will be so sort of confusing.I have a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop, running:
Windows XP SP3
Intel Pentium 4 Mobile CPU 1.80 ghx processor
512 megs of RAM
I have several hard drives in a USB connected dock which I swap out, and need a way to manage. I have no computer to put them in and make everything easier.
I have updated everything from Dell's site, including the BIOS. However, when you go into it and look at the list of boot devices, you see only CD-ROM, not DVD, and no USB.
What I would like to do ultimately is have a menu, from which I could select tools, and in those tools have a partition manager and some sort of hard drive imaging software. All this done in BIOS, before Windows loads. My uncle set up something like this for my computer ages ago, but he and I are no longer talking.
Failing that, something which would load from USB would be nice.
I tried Paragon Hard Drive Manager 8.5 standard, the free version that is so hard to get now. It fails on several points:
- It can't se an exterior hard drive connected via USB when I boot into the disc.
- It can't restore an image it created, weird but true
- It takes roughly 24 hours to manage partitions while in the Windows environment, using the program.
I need a program, preferable free, but I'll listen to any suggestions that have a price tag, which is able to manage partitions, and create images of a hard drive partition. It can be an all-in-one or two different pieces of software. I need comprehensive and clear instructions if installing in DOS. If installing on CD-ROM, it has to work, unlike Clonezilla, which will not boot. The software can run in Windows, but it has to run at a reasonable speed, even when moving large 10 gig+ partitions.
In addition, to run something on USB, I need to get USB support for my laptop in DOS. Do I use a hacked BIOS, and where do I get one? Do I hack it myself, and if so how? Is there even any way to give the Dell Inspiron 2650 USB support in DOS?
Any help you can give me would be appreciated -
- Deathbliss
Windows XP SP3
Intel Pentium 4 Mobile CPU 1.80 ghx processor
512 megs of RAM
I have several hard drives in a USB connected dock which I swap out, and need a way to manage. I have no computer to put them in and make everything easier.
I have updated everything from Dell's site, including the BIOS. However, when you go into it and look at the list of boot devices, you see only CD-ROM, not DVD, and no USB.
What I would like to do ultimately is have a menu, from which I could select tools, and in those tools have a partition manager and some sort of hard drive imaging software. All this done in BIOS, before Windows loads. My uncle set up something like this for my computer ages ago, but he and I are no longer talking.
Failing that, something which would load from USB would be nice.
I tried Paragon Hard Drive Manager 8.5 standard, the free version that is so hard to get now. It fails on several points:
- It can't se an exterior hard drive connected via USB when I boot into the disc.
- It can't restore an image it created, weird but true
- It takes roughly 24 hours to manage partitions while in the Windows environment, using the program.
I need a program, preferable free, but I'll listen to any suggestions that have a price tag, which is able to manage partitions, and create images of a hard drive partition. It can be an all-in-one or two different pieces of software. I need comprehensive and clear instructions if installing in DOS. If installing on CD-ROM, it has to work, unlike Clonezilla, which will not boot. The software can run in Windows, but it has to run at a reasonable speed, even when moving large 10 gig+ partitions.
In addition, to run something on USB, I need to get USB support for my laptop in DOS. Do I use a hacked BIOS, and where do I get one? Do I hack it myself, and if so how? Is there even any way to give the Dell Inspiron 2650 USB support in DOS?
Any help you can give me would be appreciated -
- Deathbliss
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