Hi Bret, I am not a speed junkie, and the drive will only be connected when I am doing an xcopy style backup. I am in dos 7.1, with my own hard drives as fat 32. I know already though that the external drive is not formatted for dos. Let me run this trick over the weekend and see what I discover. Thanks! Karen
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, Bret Johnson wrote: >> I wish to use an external usb hard drive for backup purposes. > > OK, but with my current drivers it will probably be very slow. You may want > to try some other drivers if you care about speed (at least for now). > >> While the driver loads, and seems? to find the device, I cannot >> well understand the file created explaining just where the drive >> is. > > After the drive seems to load, do a "USBDRIVE S" and see what it says. If > nothing shows up, we can do some more advanced troubleshooting. > >> My thought? was that the drive would simply appear as an extra >> drive letter, allowing me to reformat it, something needful. > > That's basically what should happen, but it depends on how the drive is > formatted. It can have multiple partitions (just like a regular hard drive), > so could show up as multiple drive letters. Depending on which version of > DOS you're using and how the drive is formatted, it may not show up correctly > either (e.g., if you're using MS-DOS 6.2, which doesn't support FAT32, and > the partition(s) are formatted as FAT32, they won't show up). And, of > course, there are some disks that USBDRIVE just doesn't like for one reason > or another. > > Yous can also use partitioning tools, like FDISK, on the USB disks if you > want. > >> Thoughts on how the usb driver will present an external hard >> drive? > > The program can't tell the difference between a flash drive and a hard drive, > so it should look just like a flash drive (assuming you use those). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
