Really useful gadget

[HammerHead]

Update

Drive and enclosure showed up. Parted and fromatted the disk put in the machine selected OD on the enclosure and booted to a virus rescue disk. Tried a couple of other iso's works great. My stack of CD's should shrink now.

 

[strollin]

My latest ISO on mine is the Win 8 Developer Preview.

 

[richnrockville]

I just received mine and put in a 500gig drive. initialized and formatted. created the _iso directory. I copied a bunch of .iso files to the directory. They all showed up when I turned the wheel. Can't wait to try it on another machine. I think that it is really a neat tool for my bag.

thanks Strollin for the heads up.

rich

 

[HammerHead]

Iso

Mine works great. Don't be surprised if some iso's don't boot. In particular I have not got the iso for MS system sweeper to boot correctly.

 

[strollin]

Mine works great. Don't be surprised if some iso's don't boot. In particular I have not got the iso for MS system sweeper to boot correctly.

Does the iso boot correctly when burned to a disk?

 

[HammerHead]

Disk

Boots great from a cd which I burned. (from the same iso)

 

[strollin]

I just booted from the 64-bit MS System Sweeper ISO and it worked fine.

 

[jumanji]

I have ordered the Zalman Case from Amazon. May take another 10 days to reach me in India. In the meantime I have to get a 2.5" HDD. Which one is best? Not all brands and capacities will be available here. So three or four HDD options welcome.

 

[HammerHead]

Oh Well

Strollin:

The difference could probably be explained away by hardware. If that module is only good for thirty days, I won't get to up tight. The others (iso) I have tried seem to work fine. Some of the virus rescues can't find a net connection to update, which is solveable I think. But they have the same problem from a CD.

Jumanji:

I don't know what is the "best" hard drive. Here is the one I used.

Newegg.com - Western Digital Scorpio Black wd5000bpkt 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

 

[strollin]

@Hammerhead - I'm sure you're right about hardware differences being the problem. Didn't you say you tried several different machines? You'd think it would work on some that you tried, especially if other ISOs booted on those machines.

@Jumanji - I don't think there is a "best" drive to use. Here is the one I put in mine: Samsung Spinpoint 160G. Pretty much any 2.5" SATA drive will work fine. Drive capacity is up to you.

 

[HammerHead]

Only One Rig

I have only tried it on one rig. Sorry for the confusion. It was the machine in my specs here.

 

[strollin]

Really nice gadget. Gets into my list. If you want to keep drooling till you buy one here is one nice review. Zalman ZM-VE200 External HDD Case + Virtual Drive

I just got around to reading this review. In my opinion this reviewer missed the boat. He put way too much emphasis on testing the transfer speed and barely mentioned what truly sets this drive enclosure apart from the rest of the pack. It doesn't appear that he had a clue regarding the significance of being able to load it up with ISOs.

Here is a review from someone that gets it: Zalman ZM-VE200-Review: You need this external hard drive enclosure