Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 23:13:06 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] EZ GIG HDD upgrade - misleadingly simple or not?
In a message dated 11/3/02 9:00:56 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >No pain, no gain, no stories to tell or questions to ask on the > >List. In other words, no fun for US, George. > > > >Apart from this philoso-babble, I don't have much to offer, never > >having used EZ-GIG. I can tell you that installing and configuring > >a >8GB hard drive in a Libretto the traditional way can be a > >humbling...er, I mean rewarding experience. > > My father has an EZ-Gig drive that we were going to use for doing backups. > >From DOS it worked perfectly. Once. After that, we could never get it to > be > recognized again. Still works perfectly in Windows, though, so we just set > things up so that he Ghosts from one internal partition to the other, then > reboots to Windows and moves the Ghost file over to the EZ-Gig. > > Granted, this was on a Satellite, not a Libby, and if you're going to do the > drive swap, you only need it to work once, but still, it's enough to make me > worry about the technique. > > C. So there IS pain... excellent 8-D >From what you describe, couldn't one just copy the image or Ghost file to a standard external hard drive? In fact, that seems to be what you are doing. Sounds like the EZ part of EZ-GIG maybe is a little oversold. Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
