Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 07:00:58 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Drive overlay warning for partitioning and imaging
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >w/o -fni, does not see partitions correctly with EZ-Drive loaded.
> By, "w/o -fni, does not see...", I'm assuming you mean you ran 'x:\ghost'
> without any switches, and Ghost didn't report partition structres correctly.
> Right?
Correct. w/o any switches, Ghost 2001 only saw one partition of something
(incorrect size) on the HD, not the four total I have on mine. This is with
EZ-Drive running in both instances.
Hmmmm.... "Ghost 2001" Let's see... I'm still using an old v6.0 from 1999. But yeah... with EZ-Drive loaded, running Ghost without a switch resulted in incorrect partition info. Without EZ-Drive loaded, running Ghost without a switch results in accurate partition info. Then of course there's my other HDD with all primary FAT32 partitions where Ghost sees everthing properly with all 3 switches I've tested, as well as without a switch.
That said, you can probably get the drive to work w/o EZ-Drive correctly with
Ghost w/o switches if everything on the partition tables is written just right,
but I don't know the magical combination that would guarentee this to work
everytime. Probably a combination of the suggestions posted earlier about
getting the entire HD visible on the Libretto w/o EZ-Drive --- things including
using Partition Magic on another machine, Linux/etc. partitioning, making sure
the correct FAT partition type value is used, etc.
Huh... I must have missed that. But I'm now convinced that EZ-Drive had nothing to do with any, or at least >most< of the problems I've had in the past year with my 20GB Hitachi. It started whining loudly withing 2-3 months of installation (in early 2002), which I always wondered was symptomatic of a future failure. But that last huge corruption of partition tables and file systems a few months back when restoring an image to a new partition at the end of the drive, was definately because the drive itself was failing. That said, I don't know if there was a hardware problem on it last year when Ghosted consistently failed the 1st primary partition on the drive.
Matt
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