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post #141 of 143
5/3/10 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by mabsark View Post
Get a copy of the dell MBR, and load it up in a hex editor. Do a search for "80 BF C2 07 DB". After the search has found the code, replace "DB" with "1C".
Gotta luv a guy who still knows his way around DEBUG!! (Cute little recursion, BTW, with the two G=100 steps.) I'm wondering, though, if there was some particular reason you decided to change to the '1C' partition type? Unless I'm overlooking something, you should have been able to use "E 3D2 DB" in HIDE.DBG instead of "E 3D2 1C" and then you wouldn't have had to hack the Dell MBR at all. Also, lurkers should be cautioned that, as posted, HIDE.DBG is accurate only if the recovery partition is listed second in the partition table. If the recovery partition is listed third or fourth, the lines:
E 3?E 00 E 3?2 1C should be adjusted at the ?'s for the correct table entry per mabsark's legend for the assembly code. Dan Goodell www.goodells.net/dellrestore
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post #142 of 143
3/22/11 at 1:18am
I know this thread is old but I hope someone here can help me.

A while back a built a touchscreen jukebox with the Dell restore feature I jacked from the wife’s Inspiron 6000. I originally installed a 250 GB hard drive using the 4 partition method to keep my music library separate on the DATA partition incase I had to restore, which I’ve had to do a couple of times. What a life saver, 15 minutes of down time and back up and running.

My problem now is I installed a new 2 terabyte Seagate barracuda and now when I try the restore it errors stating something to the affect that the destination partition is to small to complete the restore. I then bought a Western Digital 2 terabyte and had the same problem. The original windows XP partition was 17 GB and I have increased it to 25 GB with the same issue. The ghost image is 1.3 GB using fast compression. The jukebox works and windows sees the full capacity of the drive 1.8 TB on the DATA partition.

I’m assuming there’s a problem with the partition table since partition magic gives me a #106 error. But I’m able to use partition commander without issue. I have been searching and reading for a month now and about ready to load a bullet in the chamber! Oh, and I can manually restore the image with no problem.

Any help is very much appreciated

Thanks
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post #143 of 143
3/26/11 at 2:03am
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Originally Posted by wyzer View Post

I installed a new 2 terabyte Seagate barracuda and now when I try the restore it errors stating something to the affect that the destination partition is to small to complete the restore. [...]

I’m assuming there’s a problem with the partition table since partition magic gives me a #106 error.
Disregard any Partition Magic msgs--that program was unusable on hard disks over about 500GB. (That may have seemed unimaginably large back when PowerQuest developed PM8 nearly a decade ago, but after Symantec bought them out the only "upgrade" Partition Magic ever got was a logo change.)

Be careful using hard disks that large. The Dell DSR system is based on the very old Ghost 2003 (aka, 8.2) and 8.3 versions. The Ghost experts over on radified.com have established that these versions were reliable only to around 1-1.5 TB. My recollection is hazy, but IIRC it started coming up with crazy numbers beyond 1 TB (your "destination too small" msg kind of fits that pattern) and started failing completely by 1.5 TB. Perhaps those issues applied to the *size* of the source or destination partition so you may be okay with your smallish OS partition, but my point is you're playing with fire and shouldn't be surprised if you get unpredictable symptoms.
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