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Vista saved my A$$??????
LockedIt is True — I can hardly believe it myself. Ok Oz, Vista has it’s place.
Over the weekend I used Ghost 10 to clone my HDD that was starting to make noise. It hung at 99 percent with 1 second left after a 9 hour copy.
I left it sitting at 1 second for 26 hours, making sure that it was not ‘not responding’. Finally I decided to try to clone it in Linux, which seems to work for me.
PCLOS — my usual choice, could see the HDD, but would not let me partition/format/or really do anything. It could not mount it, nor did the config tool do anything except let me see that it was there. Not listed in the partition tool. dd would not run because of this (not found).
So, I brought it in to work today — Win XP found the drive but would not let me partition it. Mandriva saw the drive and would not let me partition it. PCLOS — same thing. Wondering if the drive was bad, but I plugged it into Vista. It found the drive and all of the data that was copied to it as well. Furthermore, I was able to re-partition the drive so that Mandriva could use dd to clone it.
Clone is still running, however I was surprised that XP/Linux failed to be able to re-partition or even delete a partition when it had a hard time determining it. Vista on the other hand not only found it, but I was able to browse the folders as if the drive was setup properly.Just thought I would share an interesting, but annoying event. It took 4 systems to try to get the disk re-partitioned from a failed ghost clone. Well 2 actually, the other 2 just did nothing. How friggin SAD is that?