Re: Ghost 2003 cant see FAT32 partitions? Rich text

Wayne <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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"?

Yes, wipe the drive with something like clearhdd which
writes zeros thru all the sectors in the first few hundred
tracks. That gets rid of everything completely.

> The remnant cant be real. But Ghost is clearly confused with it too.

Maybe, or it could be having a problem with something else.

The obvious way to prove that is to wipe the drive and start over.

> 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

Dunno, I am a bit wary of findpart, just used it on a brand new laptop,
just to check if its got any wierd hidden partitions for maintenance or
restores and the findpart report didnt make a lot of sense to me.

Looks rather like its looking for stuff that might left over
from some stuffup in case that is manually patchable,
but that may not be that useful in your situation.


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