Need help making a Dos Boot Disk with Zip drive

[DavidHood]

I have a computer for a client that I need to clone there 200 M HD in zip disks. I have an external parrallel port Zip drive and want to use that. WIndows is not on the system, just Dos 6.22. How do I go about creating a BootDisk and have the system recognize the zip drive so I can clone the HD. THanks in advance

 

[SUOrangeman]

All you need is the Iomega DOS drivers, which you can easily copy onto a bootable DOS disk.

Should be able to find it on Iomega's site. I use the same drivers for my bootable CD (see the profile).

-SUO

 

[NicColt]

just use the "guest.exe" file or do a zip rescue disk.

 

[subman]

Like Nic said use guest.exe to get the Zip drive recognised in dos. If you dont have this file look for it at the site

iomega

You can use Ghost to backup and clone the hard disk. Ghost will split the backup into 100mb size files and you can copy these to the Zip disks. The advantage in doing this via Ghost is that this program will compress the files during backup. The downside to Ghost is that it will work only out of 2 hard disks or from 2 partitions.

By the way if you connect 2 hard disks on the same computer than Ghost can make a mirror image of one drive on to the other. Ghost is a DOS based program.