Ontrack Disk Manager

[bluedanube]

I tried it once a few months ago and now I have the this problem: every time I used the partition magic emergency diskettes( a set of two diskettes) when I insert the second diskette I had the error "Disk Manager has been detected in drive 1 but not running, please remove the diskette and reboot and wait for the prompt, reinsert a boot diskette while holding the space bar". Well, this didn't go anywhere but I still can restart the computer into windows. But the PM diskettes become useless.

Everything else seemed to work pretty normal. I read somewhere that Ontrack Disk Manager may have written somethiong in the MBR. Attempts to reinitialize the MBR with the switch /mbr( with fdisk and gdisk) were unsuccessful.


:r :D :mad:

[rmanet]

It's been my experience that using some of the HDD software from the various manufacturers to format and partition drives can be problematic if you want to go back to using fdisk, format, etc. - sounds like you're using PM and/or Ontrack so it would be easy to get to a point where they're conflicting and the drive setup is wrong.

Are you saying you installed the HDD with Ontrack and everything seems to be working fine - if so why the worries, or it's hard to tell if you're having problems?

[Midknyte]

Ontrack Disk Manager is similar to maxblast and data life tools from maxtor and WD respectively. it uses a "drive overlay" to fool your board into supporting a large drive than it is normally able to. Say you have a 40GB drive, but your bios only supports 32GB. Ontrack DM would allow you to use the entire 40GB space.

are you sure you're doing the boot sequence properly? i know for ezbios, you have to hit ctrl+a in order to boot from a floppy. if you just boot directly from a floppy, it won't recognize the drive properly. you'll get a "non-dos" partition error. :D

[bluedanube]

I tried Ontrack Disk Manager demo once then uninstalled it a few months ago. I didn't pay attention to it until I tried to use Partion magic diskettes. and what happened I have described in my original post.

There is a method to uninstall DDO posted at thier site but since everything seemed to work fine, I am not sure I should take the risk...


http://support.ontrack.com/cgi-bin/ontrack.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=y1TzqZkg&p_lva=&p_faqid=16&p_created=1021385896&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTE2JnBfc2VhcmNoX 3RleHQ9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9MyZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0xNCZ wX3Byb2RfbHZsMj1_YW55fiZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfc 29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=

:r :p

[Midknyte]

I always say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

You can always try their instructions and you can bail out if there is a warning message about the overlay. :D