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(44 customer reviews) 58 of 61 people found the following review helpful
It really is an external hard drive,
August 30, 2005 Michael Ham (Monterey, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor E01G300 OneTouch II 300 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I don't understand the comment about not being able to access individual files or folders: of course you can. If you couldn't, it wouldn't be much of a backup.
The backup software that comes with it (Dantz's Retrospect Express HD) offers two choices: comprehensive backup (recommended) and "duplicate". Both choices let you specify the folders and files you back up. I elected to back up My Documents and all subfolders.
Comprehensive allows you to set a schedule for automatic backups. I chose that, and I run backups every night. The first backup took about an hour, but then each night it back ups only *changes*, so it's very quick. This also allows you to select a restore point if you want to restore a file or folder: you can pick to restore the most recent backup of the file or folder, or the one from a week ago, or three days ago, etc. Once you've picked the backup point for a restore, you can then select the folder(s) or file(s) to restore. The list of files is...Read more
108 of 121 people found the following review helpful
Dual use Linux boot / Windows XP backup,
January 23, 2005 Keith R - See all my reviews
This review is from: Maxtor E01G300 OneTouch II 300 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
Goals
1. Have a drive that could be easily be moved between Linux systems for large data transfer.
2. Provide a dual boot capability for Linux/XP without touching my existing NTFS system drive
3. Provide a shared FAT partition that could be used both to move data between the two environments.
4. Backups of the XP system.
Procedure
1. Drive installed on XP without difficulty (USB2) and drive was immediately available.
2. Rebooted from a 2nd IDE drive (moved IDE cable) that had a working Linux installation.
3. I repartitioned Onetouch drive using Linux fdisk with one DOS partition.
4. Transferred Linux installation to drive using rsync
5. Followed procedure given in various usergroup postings (Maxtor provides no support for Linux). Installed 2 stage boot loader (Grub) onto Onetouch drive
6. Removed Linux IDE drive and replace XP IDE drive.
7. System wouldn't boot Linux properly. Turned out that Grub polling of the...Read more
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Be Vigilant!,
November 19, 2005 John Schultz (Midwest USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Maxtor E01G300 OneTouch II 300 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I use this as one of my backup drives on a Mac OSX machine. I actually have 2 backups one being redundant. When adding external drives to any Mac they should always be reformatted with disk utility. After I formatted them and started to use them, they would crash my machine when they were both on. After talking to the Maxtor support it was determined that all I needed was a different type of driver that I accessed from their website. There is no such thing as a perfect brand of hard drive they all suffer from the same problems. I have known people who have had maxtors for over 10 years with no problems. sometimes you get a lemon and they crap out after 3 weeks. It happens to all of the manufacturers. The point of all this rambling is be vigilant! Do multiple backups of the things that are truly irreplaceable. Pictures should be archived to CD or DVD at least 2 times a year. All it takes is to lose the first 3 years of you children's life to pound this concept home. As for the hard...Read more
