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Using Drive Image 4.00/Partition Magic

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by sjwfwork

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Having recently purchased these product, and they are good, Ihave a problem, In my infinate wisdom I had previosly aquired a cdrw of the external nature[usb]thinking I could do all kinds of magic on the hoof!!
The problem is that the above softies do not support external cdrw's does any one know a workaround, or any useful advice, cos this is like having a car with no engine!!!1
Steve

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

re: Partition magic. Version 7 does support USB devices. Heres an extract from their site...

http://www.checkmark.com.au/PartitionMagic.htm

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"Exciting New Functionality in PartitionMagic 7.0

Merge NTFS partitions
Support for Windows XP
Partition hard drives as large as 80 GB
Access and partition external USB drives
Undelete a deleted partition from rescue disks"

Perhaps you need to upgrade?

Cheers,
Tim.

by timthetoolman

...and...

re: Drive Image. Yep, it doesn't seem to support USB!

Perhaps you could try other software like Norton Ghost for instance? Of course, you'd also need DOS drivers for USB to make that work. I know DOS drivers for USB are available at a price but there are still there are no guarantees Ghost will work with them...

Maybe someone else has tried it?

Cheers,
Tim.

by mphoffar

Not sure what you're trying to do with a CDRW and these two, but I'm assuming you're wanting to make backups. Best solution I can think of is to get something like DirectCD, which will allow you to prepare a RW disk so you can just drop and drag items in there like you would any type of external medium (like a zip or jaz disk)

I'm sure there's a few other products that do this, DirectCD is just something that comes to mind. The idea here is to have drive image just think it's writing to a regular disk, which is what something like directcd will facilitate. Of coarse I'm still thinking as to what you're doing with partition magic and the CDRW though.

Good luck to you

Mark

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