USB Chicken/Egg Solution
Fred, A solution to your reader's need to back up files from his damaged 98 system to a USB CD-RW drive ("Chicken/Egg USB Issue" http://langa.com/newsletters/2006/2006-05-18.htm#4 ).... Bart's PE (which you have covered in previous newsletters), would give him a bootable XP system that supports USB devices. Including a CD burning app such as Nero would allow him to burn his files to CD.
I added Ghost32 to the PE disc and routinely use it to create an image file from the system drive. Interestingly, I have found that, while the PE system doesn't natively support FireWire devices, an external drive with both USB and FireWire support will be seen by PE as a USB device, even when plugged into the FireWire port! I hope this has been some help.
Thanks for the great newsletter. ---Ben Silverstein
Thanks Ben!
(BTW: Bart's PE coverage is here:
http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100904 )
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