PCR wrote:
Bill in Co. wrote:
PCR wrote:
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Those are my sentiments too. It's Colorado who first discovered the
mdgx site, & it's up to him to get bloody with Terhune-- not us!

Well, I'm not waiting - I'm done with it already. I did it months
ago, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm through, and moving on to more
pressing things - like using this new "USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Enclosure" for a perfect partition copy backup of the boot drive
(including ALL the directory and file dates!), and, what a joy it is,
compared to the previous, tedious, procedure, of having to manually
swap in/out the backup IDE hard drive each time!

I've been meaning to ask about that. Did you need to do a separate
download for the USB 2.0 drivers, or did they come with the device?

They came on the enclosed CD. No download needed. It was recognized
by windows as new hardware, and installed pretty easily.

Did it install flawlessly & well the first time? Is there any confusion
with
drive letters when the thing is turned on/off-- does D:\ change to E:\
for instance? What was the ultimate cost?

Pretty much installed almost flawlessly (I say "almost", because I made the
mistake of leaving my BIOS set to include any USB drives (along with
floppies) in the boot sequence. So it tried to boot first on the
enclosure drive (which I had NOT installed the drivers on!), and since I had
left my backup drive with its partition set as Active in BING, that wasn't
too nice. :-) My mistake. But having recognized that and fixing
that problem, it went fine.

Cost was around $30 for the USB 2.0 HD enclosure (enclosing the IDE drive).

I leave the USB connector plugged in, but only switch the enclosure drive on
(small power switch, on back of enclosure) when I want to make a backup.
Nothing to connect or disconnect any more!! Oh JOY!! And most of the
time my backup drive is NOT being used, so it has a pretty "unlimited"
lifetime.

The Vantec looks pretty elegant in its style, sitting here on my desk, and
has a nice blue light (in a sleek blue case) for showing disk activity.
The only thing I don't like about it is it's a tight fit getting the drive
in the case, so if someone wanted to remove it and swap in/out another IDE
drive, that wouldn't be too easy. I don't, so it's no biggie.