OnTrack disk manager help required
Theo van der Merwe
boot from another IDE disk I cannot see the partitions on the Quantum hard
drive. Do you perhaps know of a version of OnTrack disk manager for other
hard drives (Fujitsu, Western Digital etc.)? Where can I find a Windows 95
driver which will enable me to see the Quantum hard drive (with OnTrack disk
manager) when booting from another IDE disk (without OnTrack disk manager)?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Theo (nt...@iafrica.com)
David B.
not being loaded at startup, thus the drive is not accessible. In order to
see it when booting from a different drive, you will have to install disk
manager on the boot drive.
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Theo van der Merwe
David B. wrote in message <7psa3o$8ke$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net>...
>Because your not booting from the drive you installed disk manager on, it's
>not being loaded at startup, thus the drive is not accessible. In order to
>see it when booting from a different drive, you will have to install disk
>manager on the boot drive.
>
version for Quantum hard drives only installs on Quantum hard drives, so it
is not possible for me to install it on the boot drive. If a OnTrack driver
for Windows 95 is available, I could still copy files to the Quantum hard
drive. Alternatively, it seems like I require a version of OnTrack for other
IDE hard drives.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Theo (nt...@iafrica.com)
Don
software from Quantum's site. When I installed I instructed
OnTrack to use the overlay only for the slave disk. Everything
should work fine; you must be doing something wrong.
Tell us exactly what steps you went through to set up the drive.
Don
Theo van der Merwe wrote in message <7puo19$2isu$1...@nnrp01.ops.uunet.co.za>...
Gerry Kroll
<nt...@iafrica.com> wrote:
>
>David B. wrote in message <7psa3o$8ke$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net>...
>>Because your not booting from the drive you installed disk manager on, it's
>>not being loaded at startup, thus the drive is not accessible. In order to
>>see it when booting from a different drive, you will have to install disk
>>manager on the boot drive.
>>
>Thanks for your e-mail message. Unfortunately the OnTrack disk manager
>version for Quantum hard drives only installs on Quantum hard drives, so it
>is not possible for me to install it on the boot drive. If a OnTrack driver
>for Windows 95 is available, I could still copy files to the Quantum hard
>drive. Alternatively, it seems like I require a version of OnTrack for other
>IDE hard drives.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Best regards,
>Theo (nt...@iafrica.com)
>
>
>
Disk Manager will install on a hard drive other than the one it's been
customized (by OnTrack for the drive manufacturer) for. The only
requirement is that at least one of the hard drives in your system must be
of the "proper" make.
Therefore, when you install OnTrack, you MUST have all drives present and
accounted for. Keep in mind that OnTrack is a sort of boot virus that gets
control at the very start of system boot-up. It replaces a part of the
BIOS code having to do with translating software disk accesses from the
"sector-from-start-of-partition" counts used by software to the cylinder,
head, and sector counts used by the hard drive itself. Because of this,
OnTrack MUST be installed on the hard drive you boot from, even if that
hard drive doesn't require translation.
I hope this helps.
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Regards,
Gerry Kroll, PWGSC, Government of Canada
e-mail: gerry...@pwgsc.SPAM.gc.ca
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Geoff Dyer
<gerry...@pwgsc.SPAM.gc.ca> wrote:
>Keep in mind that OnTrack is a sort of boot virus that gets
>control at the very start of system boot-up.
Now *that's* the best description I've seen yet. 8-)
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Geoff
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