I need to use Norton Ghost with a SanMax 227-HD-U2 external drive case
on WIndows 98 se.  The problem is the drivers that Sanmax provide do
not work with DOS. Is there a way around this --maybe someone has
written a driver/

i visited the sanmax web page and they offer the driver in the download section:
http://www.sanmax.com/products/index.cgi?display=item&part=HD-227-U2

SanMax Product  Part No: HD-227-U2

Operating System  98se

Description: 2.5in Aluminum Slimline Case USB 2.0

This file should work (in normal and convenience way) with your
operating systems (it was developed to work with it).
But if you experince some trouble i suggest you to update your OS to Windows XP.

"WinXPPro recognized this device without any problem. The main
advantage - mobility,if you don't need it, just plug off without any
risk."
extracted from: http://www3.usenetarchive.org/File.asp?service=31438

I hope it helps.
Phossil.

Hi there,

I'm assuming you want to copy your partition/disk image directly to
your external hard disk drive through a USB connection with Norton
Ghost.

You will need Ghost 8.0 or Norton Ghost 2003 and higher. Make sure
your external hard drive is not formatted with NTFS but with FAT or
FAT32 as you can't write to NTFS from DOS. The Standard Ghost Boot
Disk will work with copying to external hard drives. The option "USB
Devices" is available only in the Symantec Ghost 8.0 and Norton Ghost
2003 versions of the Ghost Boot Wizard.

Now days you can not download a trial version of Norton Ghost, but
there is an Enterprise level that you can download for 30day trial by
following this link:

https://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/Content/TrialwareForm.cfm?ProductID=3&Promocode=ESTrialware&SSL=YES

FEW GOOD LINKS:
* Ghost Compatiblity with USB Disks
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000101617144125?Open&src=&docid=2002030414141625&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

* Guide to Norton Ghost
http://ghost.radified.com/

If you have problems with connecting your hard drive to your Windows
98se machine, you MAY need a USB drivers upgrade.

Cheers

Hi Phossil,

Thanks for taking the time to write.  However, it appears you didn;t
get the full drift of my question.  Norton Ghost works under DOS.
TYpically, you would prepare a diskette and boot up with it then use
ghost to copy the contents of a hard disk (probably the boot disk) to
another location (in this case I wanted to copy my 4 Gb drive in the
laptop to the external drive, then put a new 20Gb drive into the
laptop and copy the Ghost image back -- so that I have the exact
environment I had before but on the 20Gb drive rather than the 4Gb
drive.)

The problem is that SanMax, even on their site (thanks for the URL),
do not have a DOS driver (only Windows drivers) for their external
disk. The driver on their site is the same as the one I got on CD with
the external case. WHen you open it with Wordpad, they have inserted
in the beginiing of the actual driver file a text message saying that
it will not work with DOS -- and sure enough, it doesn't.

Andre

Hi Serkano  --thanks that all looks promising!!  I will check out what
you say in detail.

Andre

If this problem is still unresolved, since there doesnt seem to be a
DOS driver for that external HD or whatever..

1) Get access to a second computer(you said its a laptop? go to a friends house)
2) Connect computers together via a router(It hopefully is set to DHCP
to hand out IP's properly)
3) Install ghost there, set up this second computer as the ghost server
4) Upload the ghost image to this second computer,
5) Install the new 20 Gig harddrive in the laptop
6) Download the ghost image to the new Hd,

Voila, you just moved your whole OS to a new HD.