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Cindy

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Jun 20, 2003, 8:15:50 PM6/20/03
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Norton Ghost that comes with Norton SystemWorks 2003 says that it can "mark"
a drive that it makes an image of it.

What is this "mark"? What is the effect of not allowing Ghost to mark the
drive? -What is the impact of allowing it to mark the drive.

Also (related) Norton LiveUpdate updated Ghost (in Systemworks 2003)
recently. Anyone know what the update changed? (could not find it explained
on Symanted site)

Thanks


Chris

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Jun 21, 2003, 2:49:42 AM6/21/03
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"Cindy" <C...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<WsNIa.113671$x67.4...@twister.socal.rr.com>...

> Norton Ghost that comes with Norton SystemWorks 2003 says that it can "mark"
> a drive that it makes an image of it.
>
> What is this "mark"? What is the effect of not allowing Ghost to mark the
> drive? -What is the impact of allowing it to mark the drive.

I found out the hard way that when Norton Ghost "marks" the hard drive
it is actually modifying your master boot record. In my case it
created a primary boot partition for itself and also made it the
active boot partition. This screwed things up pretty bad and the only
way to get my system to boot again was to boot with a startup disk,
run fdisk, remove the ghost partition, and set my primary partition
back to active. I believe that I had problems with it because I'm
using SATA hard drives which ghost would need a driver for to access.

Joep

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Jun 22, 2003, 10:47:34 AM6/22/03
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> I found out the hard way that when Norton Ghost "marks" the hard drive
> it is actually modifying your master boot record. In my case it
> created a primary boot partition for itself and also made it the
> active boot partition.

Nope. What you describe is Ghost trying to create its virtual partition.
Ghost also marks a drive by writing some stuff to sector 62, but this is
something different and has nothing to do with the virtual partition
thingie.

Joep

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Cindy

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Jun 23, 2003, 2:49:48 PM6/23/03
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What is the purpose of these markings that Ghost makes?
Do you know anything about the recent LiveUpdate to Ghost 2003?
Thanks for the info.

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