Re: Ghost 2003 cant see FAT32 partitions?

"Wayne" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7PrYe.2898$Az1.1435@xxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <3pduk4F9tu3nU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx says...
> >
> > 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.

Clearly not if it only clears 'the first few hundred tracks'.

>
> Thanks Rod, that sounds like a very good plan.

Not.

> There has to be some reason Ghost doesnt allow FAT32
> destinations on this disk, and this should eliminate some things.
> I downloaded clearhdd, and will try to get up the gumption this weekend.

> The BIOS access to the RAID and SATA may be the whole problem,

Where did that come from?

> but Dos seems not to have any trouble with this disk.

And it's only DOS that is using the BIOS.

>
> I'm wondering if clearhdd possibly could address my other issue with
> this disk too. When I redid all the disk partitions, it was because I
> changed from the Promise Raid controller to the VIA Raid controller.
> Which was good, and it also seemed to allow changing from the fixed
> 64KB stripe size, and I specified 32KB.

> But after restoring the partitions with Ghost, it came out 64KB again.
> I dont know why, it appeared that Ghost must have done that somehow.

Doubtful if the backup was from the Promise and restored to the VIA.
It's doubtful that Promise and VIA use the same setup data.

> I dont know why Ghost would care,

It shouldn't and almost certainly doesn't.

> and am wishfully thinking perhaps the value was just stored there someplace,
> and this might rewrite that too.

So you clear that with clearhdd and then Ghost restores it, once again.

>
.

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