Backup X31 WinXP to SCSI Tape Drive

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I bought an X31 2885RGU, PM 1.6Ghz, with 1GB of memory and a 40GB HDD.

Is there a GOOD program that I can use for making Disk Images of my X31
WinXP NTFS drive using my Seagate DAT3 SCSI tape drive via an Adaptec SCSI
PC Card?

The first time I started the X31, the IBM setup program automatically
converted the HDD to NTFS! This ticked me off because I wanted to set this
PC up to dual boot plus now I have to buy all new disk utilities!

I've been using Norton Ghost running from a Floppy Disk. I have Ghost 5.1,
2000 and 2002. The old 1999 5.1 version has been the most reliable and
easiest to work with.

From what I've seen, these versions of Ghost either have problems with
NTFS or they can't be used to do a restore because they run on DOS and
they can't see the NTFS formatted drive.

Symantec bought out Power Quest; Norton Ghost 2003 seems to be PQ's Drive
Image which doesn't support Tape Drives.

Any suggestions or should I just bite the bullet and get an external USB
HDD.

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Chas. verktyg@aol.spamski.com (Drop spamski to E-mail me)

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> The first time I started the X31, the IBM setup program automatically
> converted the HDD to NTFS! This ticked me off because I wanted to set this
> PC up to dual boot plus now I have to buy all new disk utilities!
>
>
I think Powerquest's Partition Magic will convert the drive back to FAT32 if
you want, or you can partition it and convert the new part to FAT32 so you
can run your old utilities.

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I'm not sure about backing up to Tape BUT the PowerQuest software will
create an image to CD - may even work to Tape, you'll have to check. It runs
under WIndows XP or you can boot off a CD to do the backup and restore.

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Michael Tissington
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"* * Chas" <dnafutz@aol.spam.com> wrote in message
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>> "* * Chas" <dnafutz@aol.spam.com> wrote in message
>> news:Q7CdnexGJcfjoBTcRVn-pg@comcast.com...
>> >I bought an X31 2885RGU, PM 1.6Ghz, with 1GB of memory and a 40GB HDD.
>> >
>> > Is there a GOOD program that I can use for making Disk Images of my
> X31
>> > WinXP NTFS drive using my Seagate DAT3 SCSI tape drive via an Adaptec
> SCSI
>> > PC Card?
>
> "Michael Tissington" <michael@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:10oiglj5rj22c59@corp.supernews.com...
>> PowerQuest and V2i works well - you can boot from a CD and it will see
> NTFS
>> partitions without any problems.
>>
>
> Thanks for the response. I'm not talking about standard backup software. I
> want to make regular disk images of my complete HDD with a portable SCSI
> Tape Drive.
>
> How would I then go about making a drive image with a program like Norton
> Ghost?
>
> Are you suggesting that I boot with a floppy and then run the programs
> from the HDD?
> --
> Chas. verktyg@aol.spamski.com (Drop spamski to E-mail me)
>
>
>
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