I just purchased an external hard drive (160 GB) with the express
desire to make my backups to it. I have been using Ghost 2003 for
making internal backups with no problems whatsoever.. Ghost gives me
the following errors and will not backup to my USB hard drive:

"Bad Blocks Encountered"

"Read sector failure"

I then used True Acronis 9 and it backed up to the USB hard drive with
no problems. Is Ghost 2003 capable of making  backups to a USB hard
drive?????  Any help appreciated.

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> no problems. Is Ghost 2003 capable of making  backups to a USB hard
> drive?????  Any help appreciated.

Have you run LiveUpdate? And did you specify USB 1.1 or 2.0 in the Advanced
Settings?

Personally, I have found Ghost 2003 to be the very best backup solution
available. I tried the Acronis product a couple of years ago and it was
nowhere near as stable and reliable as 2003. For that matter, neither are
the subsequent releases of Ghost.

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I have loved Ghost 2003. I have run "Live Update" many times. Where do
I find and check my USB Settings??? Thanks for your help. My computer
has USB 2.0





On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:29:11 -0400, "Chuck U. Farley"
<chuckufarley@dyslexia.com> wrote:
 
>
>Have you run LiveUpdate? And did you specify USB 1.1 or 2.0 in the Advanced
>Settings?
>
>Personally, I have found Ghost 2003 to be the very best backup solution
>available. I tried the Acronis product a couple of years ago and it was
>nowhere near as stable and reliable as 2003. For that matter, neither are
>the subsequent releases of Ghost.
>

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>>> no problems. Is Ghost 2003 capable of making  backups to a USB hard[vbcol=seagreen] 

I have Ghost 9.0 and find it VERY reliable.  It backs up to a USB drive.

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Simon wrote:
> I just purchased an external hard drive (160 GB) with the express
> desire to make my backups to it. I have been using Ghost 2003 for
> making internal backups with no problems whatsoever.. Ghost gives me
> the following errors and will not backup to my USB hard drive:
>
> "Bad Blocks Encountered"
>
> "Read sector failure"
>
> I then used True Acronis 9 and it backed up to the USB hard drive with
> no problems. Is Ghost 2003 capable of making  backups to a USB hard
> drive?????  Any help appreciated.

I had the same problem.  I could never get Ghost 2003 to work
with USB 2 drives.  It would work at USB 1.1 speed but that
is too slow to be useable for backup.  Acronis TI works
well with USB drives.

- Mooron

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> I have loved Ghost 2003. I have run "Live Update" many times. Where do
> I find and check my USB Settings??? Thanks for your help. My computer
> has USB 2.0

Under Options scroll down to the External Storage Drive Options and select
the option that fits your computer. Only select USB 2.0 if _all_ of your
devices are 2.0. If you have _any_ 1.1 devices you have to select 1.1, even
if your USB drive is 2.0. That's probably why Maroon can only get 1.1 speed.

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