| Phoenix 2004-06-28, 8:35 am |
| For what it's worth, I've been using Drive Image 7 backing up to an external
USB hard drive with no problems. I don't know about Zip drives, but an
external hard drive is read as just another drive.
"Larry" <me@myhome.xyz> wrote in message news:FVHOb.549$Ue.342@lakeread03...
> You might want to consider Acronis True Image 7.0. It supports external
USB
> drives, operates from within Windows unlike Ghost and does not require MS
> .Net SW. .Net is Microsoft's pipe dream of connecting home appliances and
> other electronic goodies to your computer. It eats about 50MB of disk
space
> and it seems to me a bit worthless to acquire just to use Drive Image. I
> don't see anything else requiring .NET at this time.
>
> btw: USB 1.1 is a bit slow for an external drive,. You might want to
> consider getting an external USB 2 card/drive. 1.1 is max 11 Mbps and USB2
> is max'd at 480 Mbps. more like a true drive interface, especially
> considering you have a fast PC. I have heard of people saving video files
to
> a USB drive and losing frames with USB1. I have a Dell 8300 and it came
> equipped with 8 USB2 ports.
>
> Larry
>
>
> "BeStiff" <wanderinNO$%&SPAMroy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:400b1369.75811511@netnews.insightbb.com...
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