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Does your software hard drive Upgrader/ Clone-n-RecoverI(s) work with USB/IDE external drive products?

April 26, 2017drive external IDE Software upgrader USB

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Does your software hard drive Upgrader/ Clone-n-RecoverI(s) work with USB/IDE external drive products?

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A. Yes, but our software (Upgrader & Clone-n-Recover) typically runs from a clean environment (i.e., DOS) without multitasking & locking, etc. This is to ensure the target drive is not out of sync with the source drive. On the other hand, our USB/IDE hard drive can only be recognized when running Win98. There is no DOS driver to recognize the USB/IDE hard drive. What we found is that if we boot up the system to Win98 and then run Upgrader or Clone-n-Recover from the Command prompt window, we can still copy the internal hard drive to the USB/IDE hard drive. We then shut down the Window (here, more files are updated on the internal drive but not reflected on the USB drive), install the USB hard drive as internal and reboot. It would complain about system not being shut down previously and SCANDISK is performed. But after that, it seems to work properly.