WinRescue will back up to an external harddrive as long as it is listed in Windows Explorer as a regular harddrive. WinRescue backs up files and not a harddrive image. So, the harddrive's boot information is not backed up. Making a Boot Disk in WinRescue (95/98/ME) will save the boot information on a diskette.

Most external drives you purchase are formatted for PCs. If you are only going to use it with your Mac then you should reformat the drive by using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". If you are gong to use it with your Mac and a PC then use "MS-DOS file system" format. To format or reformat a drive you will have to erase it. So before you erase the drive, copy your files to another drive.

Yes, but as of to date, it's not possible to boot windows from a FireWire or USB drive. It is possible to assign a drive letter to the backup drive with the disk management tool and then copy the data off of that drive should your system drive die. We backup to any drive that is not listed as removable. To the best of our knowledge, USB drives do not show up as removable.

In the left panel, click the external FireWIre drive and select "Partition" in menu on the right. Choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and name the drive. Click "Options" at the bottom of the window. If you have an Intel Mac, select "GUID" as the partition scheme. If you have a Power PC Mac, select ???Apple Partition Map." Click "Partition." It will ask to confirm, click "Partition" again and the partitioning process will begin.

Frankly, we believe that these media are not optimal for most users and that they should not use a zip or other removable disk media for backup. An offsite backup service is completely automated and has the required file redundancy to protect important data. The only safe way to use removable disk media for backup is to have three disks and make the same backup three times.

Yes, but only with Linux and homebrew software. PSBBN checks the firmware of the HDD and Sony customizes the firmware of their HDD units. Until someone manages to crack the firmware and make it so you can put the changes on your own hard drive, you need an official HDD unit from Sony to use with games. Here's proof that the Sony HDD is just a relabled Maxtor hard drive. I've scanned my hard drive right here.

Ans: A standard 40-wire IDE cable WILL work with ATA-33, ATA-66, ATA-100 or ATA-133 drives but it will only allow 33MB/s performance. However, it is recommended that you use an Ultra ATA 80-wire/40-pin cable no matter what your drive rating for several reasons: wire/40-pin cables offer improved data reliability and signal integrity by adding 40 more ground wires than standard 40-wire/40-pin IDE cables.

Don't expose your laptop to resonating noises, for example loud bass noise from speakers, heavy machinery.

Regarding your particular question, basically we do not recommend to backup you're the entire drive using GrandBackup because it doesn't do sector copy of the disk, just data copy. In most cases the files that you need to back up are your data files. If you lose the hard disk, you can install the program files and other software from the original CDs or diskettes but your data files are the most valuable material and they need to be restored from your own backups.

Yes, you can use ShredIt for Mac OS X as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of a hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS X Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt X Read me (pdf) now

Insert your disk or drive and launch Disk Utility. Disk Utility is found under Apple menu > Utilities > Disk Utilities Click each partition and type a name for it, choose a format, and type a size. You can also drag the divider between the partitions to change their sizes. If a partition's name has an asterisk beside it, it's shown larger than its actual size in order to display its name legibly.

In computing, there is never enough space on your existing hard drive. As applications take up more space and with video editing, digital photography, and digital music becoming more popular, there is an increased need for hard drive storage. A hard drive enclosure kit allows you to replace your existing hard drive with a larger capacity drive and recycle your old drive for external storage. External storage kits are also popular for mobile computing.

No additional drivers are needed for these operating systems. The drivers that ship with these operating systems should automatically load when the drive is connected. If your product came with a Driver CD, insert the CD into your computer and install the appropriate driver using the Add Hardware Wizard in the Windows Control Panel. You may also find the appropriate driver on the downloads page on the Kaser website. No additional drivers are need for Mac OS X to see the drive.

No. Computer hard drives and duplicator hard drives are two separate file systems, so they cannot communicate. The USB and Firewire connections' allow the computer to use the duplicator as a CD or DVD external burner. You can use either of those devices to store the data on a disc from a specified CD or DVD drive on the duplicator. Once you create that disc, you can use it as your master disc to load into the hard drive and make your duplications. No.

Many people do. But when the hard drive fails, (and it will – hard drives have a life expectancy of less than three years) your music, and all the effort in digitizing, is lost. What makes iDoubleDrive special is that it backs up your external hard drive in real time to a second hard drive. This makes iDoubleDrive a completely redundant system, and the perfect place to store all your important files.

You can use ShredIt for Mac OS 7 as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of an external hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a hard drive. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 7 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 7 Read me (pdf) now

The external HP IDE drives need their own drivers to be loaded to operate properly. These drivers will enable the operating system to correctly identify the drive and the IDE/EIDE port it is using, thus enabling NovaBACK to work properly. These necessary drivers should have been provided with the drive or you'll need to contact HP for them.

No Officially, the word from Dell is "no", and further investigation reveals that the 400SC uses the ICH5 (82810EB) southbridge, as shown in this picture. The Intel data sheet confirms that RAID support is only available on the ICH5R (82810ER) chipsets. Additionally, the BIOS only shows the option to enable/disable SATA, no RAID configuration. Also, Intel's Application Accelerator is not supported by the 400SC's chipset. It has become a RAID only utility.

Yes. You can use FireStore with virtually any DV (read/write) capable FireWire hard disk drive. As a rule of thumb, the drive should be capable of reading/writing at least 7MB/s and relatively fast access time (at most 10-12 milliseconds). The drive MUST be first partitioned as a FAT32 volume to work with FireStore (even if you intend to use the drive on a Macintosh or other computer system later).

Yes, when connected to the computer, you can use Photo Safe as an external hard drive to back up data on your computer. In additional, you can use it as a memory card reader to read from you memory cards or copy data from your computer on the card.

Backup Professional will support the IDE tape drive if you can read and write both rewind and no rewind device using the tar utility shipped with your platform. In this case, you will be unable to use advanced positioning and fast seek. The advanced positioning is used for positioning two different file sets on a tape for either backup or restore. Quick seek is used when restoring a file to quickly seek to this file.

Yes. You can play songs directly from a hard drive connected to your computer via firewire or network.

It is possible to use an external drive as a startup disk (boot volume) on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Follow the instructions in your Mac OS manual for the proper installation of the Mac OS. If you wish to use your drive as a boot volume, make sure you install the Mac OS on the drive before saving any data to the drive. On Windows operating systems it is not possible to use an external hard drive as a boot volume. Yes, the 2163 does support 48-bit LBA.