Removing Ontrack Disk Manager

[David Gochfeld]

I have a single ide disk, on which Win98 is installed, and 2 scsi disks,
one of which contains my Red Hat install. The ide disk came with
Ontrack Disk Manager DDO installed. It is completely unneccessary in my
system, and I would like to remove it.

Here's what I've done:
In linux, I tar'ed entire contents of the ide drive (hda1) to the spare
scsi disk (sdb1).

Then I booted windows off a startup floppy, ran fdisk on the ide drive,
removed the one existing partition and created new partitions.

I rebooted the computer, again off the windows startup floppy, and ran
format /s onthe ide drive.

Then I went back to linux (booting off a linux boot floppy), and copied
the contents of the tar file I created back tot he primary partition of
the ide drive.

Then I rebooted. And the Ontrack Drive Manager is *still* there!@#$!
What do I have to do to remove it?

Thanks

-Dave

[John Thompson]

IIRC, Drive Manager lives in the MBR. DOS fdisk should get
rid of it with
"fdisk /mbr"

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-John (John.T...@ibm.net)

[Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam]

David Gochfeld schrieb in Nachricht <36F57A94...@stinky.com>...

>I have a single ide disk, on which Win98 is installed, and 2 scsi disks,
>one of which contains my Red Hat install. The ide disk came with
>Ontrack Disk Manager DDO installed. It is completely unneccessary in my
>system, and I would like to remove it.
>
>Here's what I've done:
>In linux, I tar'ed entire contents of the ide drive (hda1) to the spare
>scsi disk (sdb1).
>
>Then I booted windows off a startup floppy, ran fdisk on the ide drive,
>removed the one existing partition and created new partitions.
>
>I rebooted the computer, again off the windows startup floppy, and ran
>format /s onthe ide drive.
>
>Then I went back to linux (booting off a linux boot floppy), and copied
>the contents of the tar file I created back tot he primary partition of
>the ide drive.
>
>Then I rebooted. And the Ontrack Drive Manager is *still* there!@#$!
>What do I have to do to remove it?
>

>Thanks
>
>-Dave
>
Hello Dave,

you only need to "fdisk /mbr" from a dos-boot-floppy to get rid of the
Drive-Manager.

But first compare, whether the partition table shown in fdisk after booting
from your IDE-drive has the same parameters as when booting from a floppy.

When they are _not_ the same, you must reinstall your "senseless"-stuff.

Or, ... give that a try :

format your spare scsi-drive under senseless98,

then copy everything (but without io.sys and command.com!!! ) to the
scsi-drive with WindowsCommander (cofigured to show system/hidden files),
NOT with explorer!,

fdisk /mbr, fdisk create partition and format /s the ide-drive from
senseless98-boot-disk

and then mount IDE- and SCSI-partition under linux (VFAT) and copy everthing
back to the IDE-drive.

Bernd

[Harry]

If you go to Quantum's Web site you can download Disk Manager, a DOS
utility that lets you do all kinds of things, including install and
remove Ontrack. (The utility seems to work fine with non-Quantum
disks.)

Harry

[Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam]

Harry <10075...@CompuServe.COM> schrieb in Nachricht ...

Hi Harry,

but if he doesn't want to REINSTALL the "senselessXX"-stuff,

he MUST do it an other way!!!

Bernd

[Michel]

Harry wrote:
>
> If you go to Quantum's Web site you can download Disk Manager, a DOS
> utility that lets you do all kinds of things, including install and
> remove Ontrack. (The utility seems to work fine with non-Quantum
> disks.)
>
> Harry

There must be at least one Quantum drive in the system for that.
I have the Ontrack version of Western Digital and it requires that one of the
drives be Western Digital. Each company has it's own version of On Track.
The only way I found here was to remove the partition and recreate partitions.

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