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Valerio Vanni
Is there a way to revert Norton Ghost's marking of drives?
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Peter
Is there a way to revert Norton Ghost's marking of drives?
Possibly, using -FNF switch when restoring image to a new drive.
Possibly, using -FNF switch when restoring image to a new drive.
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Rod Speed
Is there a way to revert Norton Ghost's marking of drives?
Yes, work out where it puts them and overwrite it.
Likely its in the first physical track of the drive.
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Eric Gisin
Install the Win 2K/XP resource kit, and use dskprobe to open physical drive. Read the first 63
sectors and look for any data after the first sector (MBR).
sectors and look for any data after the first sector (MBR).
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Valerio Vanni
Possibly, using -FNF switch when restoring image to a new drive.
The problem is: I didn't made any clone nor imaging: I simply marked a
disk (a mistake, just after ghost's loading).
Doesn't ghost provide any way for simply removing marking from a disk?
From what I read on the other replies, I should find inside boot track
after mbr: what should I find?
And, last: is this infamous marking known to cause problems?
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Rod Speed
The problem is: I didn't made any clone nor imaging:
I simply marked a disk (a mistake, just after ghost's loading).
Doesn't ghost provide any way for simply removing marking from a disk?
Nope.
From what I read on the other replies, I should
find inside boot track after mbr: what should I find?
Dunno, you've have to take a snapshot of the first track
before Ghost is used and after its used and compare them.
And, last: is this infamous marking known to cause problems?
Nope, it doesnt matter a damn.
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George Pontis
Install the Win 2K/XP resource kit, and use dskprobe to open physical drive. Read the first 63
sectors and look for any data after the first sector (MBR).
Doesn't the partition table follow the MBR ? Wouldn't want to clear that ...
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Rod Speed
George Pontis said:(e-mail address removed) says...
Doesn't the partition table follow the MBR ?
Yes, but they are both in the first physical sector.
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Valerio Vanni
Yes, work out where it puts them and overwrite it.
Likely its in the first physical track of the drive.
Found: it's within the 63th sector of the disk.
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Valerio Vanni
Doesn't the partition table follow the MBR ? Wouldn't want to clear that ...
The first sector (512 bytes) *is* the MBR, and is composed by boot
code (first 446 bytes) and partition table (the following bytes up to
512).
We are discussing about the *sectors* (each one of 512 bytes) that
follow the MBR and precede the beginning of the first partition.
And in the last of these sectors (the 63th) is where Ghost put its
marks.