"Manu" <manu@invalid.address> wrote in message
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RESPONDING TO Jaymon WHO HAD INQUIRED ABOUT THE "CLUSTER SIZE" OF HIS 250 GB
HITACHI HD)
> Hi Jaymon,
>
> Thanks for the input. No, all the drives on this machine (as my others)
> are formatted with 4096 Byte NTFS sector size.
>
> I checked every physical and software settings I could think of - from
> drive jumper settings to sector sizes - but this one particular drive
> simply does not show up anywhere in a DOS environment capable of handling
> large NTFS drives. I have no problem with any of the other 8 large
> (250GB - 300GB) drives I have on the machines I work with - only this one.
>
> I am tending to think it is a one-of-a-kind drive hardware oddity because
> the unit itself works fast and unerringly in a Windows environment. Maybe
> I should preserve it for research later but for now I am reconfiguring my
> back up utilities on this one machine so that file & folder back ups and
> drive images are done to a drive other than the errant Hitachi unit!
>
> An associate who stopped by yesterday left with slightly fewer hairs on
> his head - after much head-scratching trying to figure it out!
>
> Regards and thanks again.
>
> Manu


Manu:
While I'm not at all certain that I precisely understand how your system is
setup with respect to your hard drives configuration, I'm surely at a loss
as to exactly what your objective is and whatever the problem is that
impacts on that objective.

So rather than include all the previous postings re this thread, let me
summarize what I think your situation is and try to gain some understanding
of what you're trying to achieve here.

1. In a later posting you mentioned that your boot drive is a 120 GB HD
presumably connected as Primary Master. You have two other HDs connected to
a Promise controller card - a Hitachi 250 GB drive and a Maxtor 300 GB. (I
think you previously mentioned that you're working with an older motherboard
whose BIOS does not recognize large-capacity disks and that's the reason
you're using the Promise controller card). From your past comments we're
assuming that all these drives are non-defective and functional. I assume
your system is basically sound in that you can boot to your 120 GB drive
without incident.

2. You have some problem using the Ghost 2003 program in terms of it
recognizing the 250 GB drive. I take it the nub of your problem is this
"non-recognition" issue involving that drive.

3. What *precisely* is the problem? Are you trying to insure that you can
maintain a backup of your day-to-day working HD, i.e., your 120 GB drive
using the Ghost 2003 disk imaging program. What is it that you want to
achieve here?

4. And if the preceding *is* your objective, is the problem simply that
Ghost does not "see" the 250 GB HD so that you cannot clone the contents of
your source disk (presumably your 120 GB booting drive) to that Hitachi?

5. I know you previously stated that "I do not want to clone the contents of
my drive". What then is your objective?

6. I believe you stated you're working with a Ghost 2003 bootable floppy
disk and you're familiar with Ghost's disk imaging process particularly as
it affects *direct* disk-to-disk cloning of the contents of one HD to
another HD. And your Ghost bootable floppy disk was created with the Ghost
2003.793 build, yes?

Forgive my denseness re my apparent failure to understand your problem. The
issue may be moot at this point since I just came across a recent comment by
you that "Anyhow I have decided on changing my plans slightly in order to
address this
issue...". But if you want to pursue this issue further would you clearly
and directly state your precise problem.
Anna