{"id":214,"date":"2004-10-21T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/explanation-of-hard-drive-options-in-the-image-for-dos-menus\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:09:42","slug":"explanation-of-hard-drive-options-in-the-image-for-dos-menus","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/explanation-of-hard-drive-options-in-the-image-for-dos-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation of Hard Drive Options in the Image for DOS Menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<strong>Please note: <\/strong>This article applies to version 1 product(s) only.<\/p><p>When creating or restoring an image, you are presented with several options for hard drive selection.&nbsp; Here is an explanation of each of the options presented:<\/p> <ul><li><strong>BIOS HD:<\/strong> Locates and accesses the hard drive by way of the system BIOS.&nbsp; Any problems or limitations of the system BIOS will apply.<br \/><br \/><\/li><li><strong>BIOS HD (direct):<\/strong> Locates the hard drive using the system BIOS, but then attempts to access it directly, bypassing the BIOS.&nbsp; This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the <strong>BIOS HD<\/strong> option is very poor.&nbsp; In order to get the most out of this option when creating an image, you should select a partition--rather than a file--as the target for saving the image.<br \/><br \/><\/li><li><strong>USB2 HD:<\/strong> Examines the attached USB 2 controller, if any, for available high-speed hard drives.<br \/><br \/><\/li><li><strong>IEEE1394 HD:<\/strong> Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller, if any, for available hard drives.<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: This article applies to version 1 product(s) only.When creating or restoring an image, you are presented with several options for hard drive selection.&nbsp; Here is an explanation of each of the options presented: BIOS HD: Locates and accesses the hard drive by way of the system BIOS.&nbsp; Any problems or limitations of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1818],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-214","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-ifd-ifl-ifw-version-1-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/214\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}