Re: Ghost 2003 cant see FAT32 partitions?

Probably ghost being 'holier than the pope' regarding partition table rules
(or percepted partition table rules) or bios settings being different than
recorded in the MBR. Or showing error behaviour triggered by that.

You can use Findpart or Partinfo to see if they find any peculiarities with
the partitions.

"Wayne" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message dzAXe.1716$Az1.171@trnddc07">news:dzAXe.1716$Az1.171@trnddc07
> IN SOME CASES, Ghost 2003 doesnt see any FAT32 parition (as a
> destination for an image file). It seems to depend on the computer.
> I have an Asus AV8 motherboard, and Ghost sees NTFS fine, but doesnt
> see its FAT32 partitions. I also have an Asus AV7 motherboard, and Ghost
> does see its FAT32 fine. A friend has two computers on which Ghost 2003
> doesnt see any FAT32 partitions. Internal or USB external, doesnt matter.
> Presence of some NTFS, or entirely FAT32 systems, doesnt seem to matter.
>
> That seems really bizarre. What could cause it? How common is it?
>
> If I boot on the Ghost 2003 CD on this AV8 system, then the IBM Dos boot
> system at A: can see all FAT32 partitions fine, and doesnt see NTFS
> partitions (as expected from Dos). But then start Ghost from that CD,
> and it is the opposite, NTFS is seen, FAT32 is not. But Ghost on my AV7
> sees both fine, as expected from Ghost 2003.
>
> Again, problem is referring to selectable Destinations for image files.
> As a Source, the FAT32 partition is seen by number, however Ghost shows
> its volume label as NO NAME, when it fact has another name seen in XP.
>
> Both disks were fully created by the XP Install disk.
.

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