Re: Ghost 2003 cant see FAT32 partitions? Rich text


>> The Windows version seemed to hang on me,
>
>Hmm.

That was the 4.67 version, I didnt try 4.63. But 4.42 worked OK in Dos.


>> 6630 1 0E 63 40965687 20002 6630* 1 1 9179*254 63 00 OK
>
>Apparently an earlier Fat16x remnant.

Thanks, I missed the significance. I dont know how that can possibly be, and
does seem a jumbled mess.

I see the F6 sector, and wondered if I might have used FDISK to look at it
once (a year ago). I cant remember that, but it is not impossible. This disk
happens to be a SATA RAID 0 pair, but Dos can see its FAT32 via the BIOS.

A few weeks ago, I used the Windows XP install disk to remove all partitions,
and recreate all (and restored NTFS with Ghost). Is there a better way to
remove all partitions and start over clean, which might flush this "remnant"?
The remnant cant be real. But Ghost is clearly confused with it too. However
GDisk shows it as OK (a Ghost replacement for Fdisk), and Dos has no trouble
with it.

Actually, I have converted to NTFS here, but I put this one partition back to
FAT32 to try to help a friend that has the same problem - His disk is all
FAT32, and Ghost 2003 wont accept any of his FAT32 partitions as a
destination, external or internal disk. Works with NTFS destinations only.
I can duplicate the same problem here on one computer.

I have an older computer (Asus A7V motherboard), with one new 60GB disk
divided roughly into three 20GB FAT32 partitions, and Ghost 2003 works fine
with it, regarding seeing the FAT32 as destinations. I attach that FindPart
here too, the one that does work - an on which Ghost does see FAT32
destinations. It is much cleaner, which must be the desired goal. The middle
FAT CHS section is the most different. The first computers one FAT32 is not in
that middle report.

Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 1999-2004.

OS: DOS 7.10

Disk: 1 Cylinders: 7297 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 57239

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 - 0C 63 30716208 14998 0 1 1 1911 254 54 B OK
1912 1 0B 63 38909367 18998 1912* 1 1 4333*254 63 NB OK
1912 2 05 38909430 47584530 23234 4334* 0 1 7295*254 63 1912 OK
0 - 0B 30716343 38909360 18998 1912 1 1 4333 254 56 B OK
4334 1 0B 63 47584467 23234 4334* 1 1 7295*254 63 OK OK

-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
0 1 33 14984 8 2 14984 0 0 0 000319 4534
1912 1 35 9495 16 2 9495 0 0 0 011029 7774
4334 1 33 11612 16 2 11612 0 0 0 050104 8084

Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:

-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0C 63 30716217 14998 0 1 1 1911*254 63 NB OK
0 2 0F 30716280 86493960 42233 1912* 0 1 7295*254 63 OK

1912 1 0B 63 38909367 18998 1912* 1 1 4333*254 63 NB OK
1912 2 05 38909430 47584530 23234 4334* 0 1 7295*254 63 OK

4334 1 0B 63 47584467 23234 4334* 1 1 7295*254 63 OK OK

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