CF-18/19 external drive question

I have a CF-18 that works fine but no external cd drive. If I ever need to reinstall I'll need a drive, and was going to buy one off of eBay but then I saw the Zalman VE200 ( ::: ZalmanVE200 :::) Has anyone had any experience with it? If not do you think it would fool a CF18/19 into thinking it was a bootable cd/dvd drive that you could install windows (or whatever) from?


Tom

 

Never heard of them before and I bet it cost a lot of $$$$$ to. For $8.68 you can get a external cd-rom case Slim Laptop External USB 2.0 CD-ROM Portable Drive case | eBay
and this one for $5.00 best offer and you are all set
HITACHI/LG CD-ROM DISK NOTEBOOK DRIVE GCR-8240N X7082 | eBay


EXTERNAL DISK CD ROM DRIVE WINDOWS OP. | eBay

 

I use almost any external drive to load mine all the time.
I am not sure what the issue is?
Samsung and LG drives sell for around $30.00 all over the place and also are DVD burners now too.

 

I was even at wallyworld tonight and in the reduce section they had a Targus portable dvd/cd-rom for $20.00....thats a deal

 

Hey, it looks like this is just an external HDD. You can burn the image of your existing system onto say a WD external using Snapshot and get UBCD or make a system restore/repair/boot disk to reload your saved disk image. I use Windows 7 and it has the save to image built in in the backup section of the control panel. I burn an image once a month on the same external HDD but I don't keep making the restore disk, you only need the one. So, you'll need a cheaper external CD, HDD, set your system to boot from CD and then select the image from your HDD you want to restore. I have two internals and use this method to always have a backup ready to go in case of catastrophic failure of my primary HDD.

 

The 12th commandment: Thou shalt backup.

mnem
The 11th commandment? Thou shalt DOCUMENT everything.