removing Seagate Ontrack Disk managment S/W?

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Alan Brown

Hi

I have a friends 'old' 8Gb drive (very low milage) and want to use it for
back or something. It had Ontrack put on it to make it work with his even
older PC (it had 4 partitions on it) i have removed the partitions and
formatted it via Win 2K. i notice that it displays the Seagate Ontrack
banner on boot..(have not done anything with it since)

Do i need to remove the management s/w and if so ..How?

regards
 
Hi

I have a friends 'old' 8Gb drive (very low milage) and want to use it for
back or something. It had Ontrack put on it to make it work with his even
older PC (it had 4 partitions on it) i have removed the partitions and
formatted it via Win 2K. i notice that it displays the Seagate Ontrack
banner on boot..(have not done anything with it since)

Do i need to remove the management s/w and if so ..How?

regards
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Run same program that installed it, or as close to same version as
posssible... will have the option to uninstall. It should be available on
Seagate's website but also it's possible that another brand's software
will work, if you have the other brand drive in same system, because
several makes if not all used Ontrack's software.
 
Much appreciated!

Ta.
kony said:
Run same program that installed it, or as close to same version as
posssible... will have the option to uninstall. It should be available on
Seagate's website but also it's possible that another brand's software
will work, if you have the other brand drive in same system, because
several makes if not all used Ontrack's software.
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kony said in news:[email protected]:
Run same program that installed it, or as close to same version as
posssible... will have the option to uninstall. It should be
available on Seagate's website but also it's possible that another
brand's software will work, if you have the other brand drive in same
system, because several makes if not all used Ontrack's software.
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Isn't the OP asking about a drive overlay manager? Doesn't that reside
in the bootstrap code section of the MBR? Wouldn't running FIXMBR (from
the Recovery Console loaded from the install CD) or running 'FDISK /MBR'
from a Win9x boot floppy take care of wiping out the disk overlay
manager to replace it with a standard bootstrap program?

I'm also wondering if removing Ontrack's Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO)
might not result in changing the geometry translation used and make the
drive unusable after removing the DDO. So I suggest doing a full backup
of all your files first. A physical disk image might still work, too,
for a restore since, I assume, it will based on sectors by their number
rather than on their physically translated location.

If it is an old drive and whatever is on it is unimportant then I would
think using FIXMBR or 'FDISK /MBR' along with using FDISK to delete all
partitions would suffice.
 
hi,
i think you will find the option to remove the ddo under maintenance
options in seagate diskwizard .
hope this helps
terry

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