Using Ghost from Norton System Works 2003.
My Sony SRX77 does not have a floppy drive, so I can't make a Ghost boot disk on a floppy. As I read the manual, I could make one on a CD-R. (If I do my backup to the CD-R, that's automatic, I think, but I could also just burn the startup?)
I want to save the backups to my external USB2 Maxtor HDD. But I use a PC Bus card for the USB2; the CD drive with the Sony also uses that slot, so I'd have to remove the CD card after I boot to DOS with the boot CD and then plug in the USB2 card to get the restore from the external HDD.
Will this work?
My CD burner is an Iomega USB2 burner. Alternatively I could use it to run the boot disk from one of the PC Card USB2 slots and plug the Maxtor into the other.
--Would the Sony BIOS recognize and be able to use the PC-bus card?
--If so, would it boot from a CD-R disk that's connected to a USB2 link? Ie, would the BIOS see this as an appropriate CD drive to boot from?
My Sony SRX77 does not have a floppy drive, so I can't make a Ghost boot disk on a floppy. As I read the manual, I could make one on a CD-R. (If I do my backup to the CD-R, that's automatic, I think, but I could also just burn the startup?)
I want to save the backups to my external USB2 Maxtor HDD. But I use a PC Bus card for the USB2; the CD drive with the Sony also uses that slot, so I'd have to remove the CD card after I boot to DOS with the boot CD and then plug in the USB2 card to get the restore from the external HDD.
Will this work?
My CD burner is an Iomega USB2 burner. Alternatively I could use it to run the boot disk from one of the PC Card USB2 slots and plug the Maxtor into the other.
--Would the Sony BIOS recognize and be able to use the PC-bus card?
--If so, would it boot from a CD-R disk that's connected to a USB2 link? Ie, would the BIOS see this as an appropriate CD drive to boot from?