<budman@suckeggs.ca> wrote in message
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>
> I have purchased Gibson Research Spinrite. However, it will not recognize
my
> USB external backup drive. Gibson Research is rather vague on the
solution,
> saying that:
>
> " However, there are DOS drivers available for USB and FireWiwe devices
that
> will allow you to run SpinRite. If you can get your USB or FireWire
device to
> "seen" by DOS, then SpinRite will have no problem testing the drive."
>
> That being said, I have no idea how to install such a driver. I have an
Intel
> m/board with "USB Legacy Enabled". I have Windows XP Home, two 80 Gig
internal
> drives and the USB 250 Gig external drive.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

www.bootdisk.com claims to have a boot disk with a USB
driver. I wonder if it's going to be of any use to you, because
DOS is unlikely to recognise disks of the size in use these days.