Recommended Recovery Hardware and Software

Host system

Desktop or laptop PC equipped with a PCMCIA controller or USB port

Adapter appropriate for your system

• For systems with PCMCIA controllers, a compact-flash-to-PCMCIA adapter—for example, a Macally PCM-CF compact flash PCMCIA adapter.
• For systems with a USB port, a USB-to-compact-flash adapter. For example:
  • SIIG USB 2.0 Card Reader, model US2274, part number JU-CF0122
  • MediaGear USB 2.0 Combo 9-in-4, model MGTR100
  • AVP USB 8-in-1 Card Reader, model UC-28
  • Inland Multi-Plus Card Reader, part number 08310
  • HummingBird Multi Card Reader, HCR 81

Software appropriate for your system

• UNIX with PCMCIA drivers
• Windows 2000, or Windows XP

Systems running Windows require additional software.

• WinZip, gzip, or a similar compression utility
• A utility such as the following that allows you to write files to unformatted devices:
  • Norton Ghost
  • dd utility from the Cygwin package
  • physdiskwrite utility