I have found the USB support to be iffy with 3.5 and of course the age of the systems comes into play......
Tangent: This is an interesting tool for formatting the usb..... http://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.software.informer.com/ ----------------- I am curious to the not getting on the network comment. Could be a config issue as the networking is not that hard. Is the NIC going bad? Thanks, Mathew From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESXi fun As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a half-dead ESXi box....I'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one last try.... Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's no shared storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind. I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask too many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the old faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-) If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a long, long time.... TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
