Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:41:40 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] EZ-Drive, yes or no revisited...
From: David Chien Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:38:08 -0700 (PDT)
Well, whatever, only one of these switches will show the entire HD once
you've launched Ghost -- I do recall my 20GB didn't show everything until I had
the correct switch.
I don't know David. I've been using -fnx and -ffx for the past year or so, and it seems that whether or not Ghost sees all HDD partitions properly depended on which switch was used, and the particular HDD with its own set of partitions that I was working on.
I never thought of using -fni until Symantec support pointed to that URL saying to use it on a HDD with drive overly. Without having done any testing specifically for the purpose to sort all this out, I'm not going to bet on any one of these switches working to get Ghost display partitions properly across the board in all possible combinations of partition setups and methods of launching Ghost: FDDboot, HDDboot, within Windows. But maybe the odds are better though using -fni on HDDs with drive overlay.
From: David Chien Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
I always boot to my Libretto's HD and after EZ-Drive loads, I jump into DOS,
then run Ghost with the switches I need. That has always worked for me for
restores and backups.
So you're kind of in the same boat as Lee where you stick to one particular method of launching Ghost, and use the same switch every time. I guess my problem is my cat-curiousity . When I was already working in Windows before getting around to imaging, I'd try Ghost there. If Ghost was on a hidden partition, I'd frequently do what you do, passing the EZ-Drive prompt, boot to DOS and run Ghost from one of the partitions. Or if Ghost wasn't even on the HDD, I'd use a boot FD with Ghost on it to do the work.
So I wonder. Maybe -fni is in fact the switch to stick with when using drive overlay.
I thought I was going to just ditch EZ-Drive completely, as Windows 98 and up don't need it to access all partitions over 8GB. But now I see that not only Fdisk, but Partition Magic also doesn't work properly without EZ-Drive installed. If you're going to set partitions on a HDD once, and never mess with it again, then I guess you don't really need it. It's easy enough to install it from FD at some point in the future if it's ever necessary to modify partitions from DOS.
Matt
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