64 bit compatible drives/are there any?

I, for one, am finding it very difficult to find any Firewire drives that
have 64 bit drivers available. As it stands right now, I have no way of
backing up my computer system FULLY. How are others dealing with this
problem? Please respond with any comments/suggestions/info you may have on
this subject. Thank you for your time.

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:49:13 -0500, "Dirty Dawg"
<> wrote:

>I, for one, am finding it very difficult to find any Firewire drives that
>have 64 bit drivers available. As it stands right now, I have no way of
>backing up my computer system FULLY. How are others dealing with this
>problem? Please respond with any comments/suggestions/info you may have on
>this subject. Thank you for your time.

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eSATA
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"Dirty Dawg" <> wrote in message
news:O$...
> I, for one, am finding it very difficult to find any Firewire drives that
> have 64 bit drivers available. As it stands right now, I have no way of
> backing up my computer system FULLY. How are others dealing with this
> problem? Please respond with any comments/suggestions/info you may have
> on this subject. Thank you for your time.
>

Dealt with by using a USB 2 based external drive - no problem with drivers
for this as just a USB device.

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Mike Brannigan

Thanks for the comments guys. Oh well, I guess I have to start looking for
alternative drives to what I already have. Western Digital is really
dragging their feet on producing any 64 bit drivers for their drives. Such
is life I guess.

Don't buy WD unless you're looking for a boat anchor or door stop.
Just my personal experience.

The way I went, was to buy an enclosure and a Maxtor drive and
assembled them myself. The "AirLink 101" enclosure I got, has outputs
for both Firewire and USB2.

USB2 doesn't care what OS you're using.

Good Luck,
Shadow


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TheShadow

A person with experience, is never at the mercy of a person with an
argument.

TheShadow wrote:
> Don't buy WD unless you're looking for a boat anchor or door stop.
> Just my personal experience.
>
> The way I went, was to buy an enclosure and a Maxtor drive and
> assembled them myself. The "AirLink 101" enclosure I got, has outputs
> for both Firewire and USB2.
>
> USB2 doesn't care what OS you're using.
>
> Good Luck,
> Shadow
>
>
>
Neither does eSATA. And eSATA has much faster transfer speeds, and may
be used to boot an OS, unlike USB or Firewire.

Donald L McDaniel

In all actuality, most new mobo's today will boot just fine from a USB
device
(hard drive or flash drive or even a flash memory card

I even have a bootable SD Flash, camera card that will boot my PC
It all depends on the motherboard and bios

Cheers Mates
The Shadow :cool

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TheShado

A person with experience, is never at the mercy of a person with a
argument.

TheShadow wrote:
> In all actuality, most new mobo's today will boot just fine from a USB2
> device.
> (hard drive or flash drive or even a flash memory card)
>
> I even have a bootable SD Flash, camera card that will boot my PC.
> It all depends on the motherboard and bios.
>
> Cheers Mates!
> The Shadow
>
>
>
That may be true or not. It is irrelevant to the OP, for all
practical purposes, since neither XP nor Vista will boot from an USB
drive OOB whether one's motherboard allows it or not.

They will using an e_SATA drive.

After all, what good is a fancy motherboard if your chosen OS won't
allow you to use it.

While your disclosure may be true, it is not made from full knowledge.
A PATA drive contained in an external enclosure will not boot using
Windows: While Windows may or may not allow one to install itself on an
external USB drive without serious hacking of the Windows installation
media, such an act ("backward engineering of the installation code") is
specifically covered (and denied) under the Microsoft EULA, and is
unlawful in the U.S, if not in GB or the EU in general.

--

Donald L McDaniel
"Certainly not a shadow"
A "Cool" person never toots his own horn.
A person with practical experience is never at the mercy of an
argumentative person with a lesser argument.

TheShadow wrote:
> In all actuality, most new mobo's today will boot just fine from a USB2
> device.
> (hard drive or flash drive or even a flash memory card)
>
> I even have a bootable SD Flash, camera card that will boot my PC.
> It all depends on the motherboard and bios.
>
> Cheers Mates!
> The Shadow
>
>
>
That may be true or not. It is irrelevant to the OP, for all
practical purposes, since neither XP nor Vista will boot from an USB
drive OOB whether one's motherboard allows it or not.

They will using an e_SATA drive.

After all, what good is a fancy motherboard if your chosen OS won't
allow you to use it.

While your disclosure may be true, it is not made from full knowledge.
A PATA drive contained in an external enclosure will not boot using
Windows: While Windows may or may not allow one to install itself on an
external USB drive without serious hacking of the Windows installation
media, such an act ("backward engineering of the installation code") is
specifically covered (and denied) under the Microsoft EULA, and is
unlawful in the U.S, if not in GB or the EU in general.

--

Donald L McDaniel
"Certainly not a shadow"
A "Cool" person never toots his own horn.
A person with practical experience is never at the mercy of an
argumentative person with a lesser argument.

Daniel, Daniel, Daniel,

If you just want to argue, I'm sure you can find a better forum for it.
You're so upset that you posted your vehement reply twice. Chill,
dude!
First you virtually call me a liar and then tell me I'm irrelevant.
Oh well........

I said I can boot up almost any new PC from a USB device...... I said
nothing about booting Windows...now did I? Now you're accusing me of
back-engineering Windows and virtual piracy. What will you accuse me of
next.....assassinating President Kennedy?

Actually, I boot the PC into DOS to run programs like Ghost, or other
DOS programs, diagnostics and utilities. Whether or not the mobo will
boot from a USB drive, really has nothing at all to do with Windows.
If anyone else didn't understand that, I apologize.

A few people reading this forum may know what eSata is, but overall I
doubt if there are many who do or would have any idea at all how to use
it.

So to all the Admins and Moderators, I apologize for trying to add a
little 'flavor' to this forum. My bad!

The Shadow


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TheShadow

A person with experience, is never at the mercy of a person with an
argument.