Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:27:51 +0000
From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Drive overlay warning for partitioning and imaging

From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

L110, 20GB Hitachi, EZ-Drive 9.09, Ghost 2001

Verified: Boot to HD, wait until EZ-Drive is loaded, press F8 to bring up
prompt to get into Command Line Shell.  Start Ghost with -fni , see's all
partitions and works perfectly fine for restore & backups.

w/o -fni, does not see partitions correctly with EZ-Drive loaded.


By, "w/o -fni, does not see...", I'm assuming you mean you ran 'x:\ghost' without any switches, and Ghost didn't report partition structres correctly. Right?

So that agrees with what I reported here:

http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2003/msg02267.html

But since I posted that David, I've found that with EZ-Drive installed, >ALL< of the switches I've been looking at work fine on the 40GB HDD in my 70CT!!

In other words with EZ-Drive, Ghost sees all partitions correctly with:

No switch: Yes
-ffx: Yes
-fnx: Yes
-fni: Yes

That drive only has 3 primary partitions, all FAT32:

C:   Fat32          3GB      Primary
D:   Fat32          5GB      Primary
*    Unallocated    54.9MB   Primary
E:   Fat32          30GB     Primary

The tests I did in the post linked above was on my 20GB HDD that has 1 primary FAT32 partition, and 3 logical FAT32 drives:

C:   Fat32          2549GB   Primary
(*)  extended       12150GB  Primary
D:   Fat32          5420GB   Logical
*    Fat32          101MB    Logical (Hibernation for 100CT)
E:   Fat32          6628GB   Logical
*    unallocated    4369GB

So it seems which switch Ghost is going to work properly with depends not only on whether or EZ-Drive is installed on a drive, but also on the exact makeup of the partitions on the drive.

I guess I'm back to choosing the switch by seeing which one reports the partition structure best of the group. Or just stick to -fni when EZ-Drive is loaded per Symantec's advise, as I guess we all agree there.

Matt

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