Greetings John, et. al.--
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From: John Farrow <[log in to unmask]>



>Hello,
>recently purchased a new system (Progen Polaris 333MHZ w/Maxtor 6.4 hard
>drive).  I then added a new IBM 8.4 Deskstar and copied everything from the
>Maxtor to Deskstar with the Ghost program.
>The problem I have.....occasionally the system locks up and I must  use a
>hard reboot to restart.
>Scandisk tries to run because of the improper shut-down (this is standard,
I
>believe) ....BUT...Scandisk states that it is unable to run because it
>cannot read the last sector of the Deskstar and that if I continue,
>I could do damage to the drive.
>

The tech guys in my school district have been using GHOST (General Hardware
Oriented System Transfer) for about a year now. The key terms are Hardware
Oriented. They claim that it should be used only on systems that are nearly
identical--particularly w/Win95. They had several systems rendered useless
when they 'ghosted' a standard hard disk load from a machine with one
motherboard to one with a different motherboard. It seems this sort of
hardware sensitivity *may* extend to 15 vs. 16 heads on a hard disk, while
the mboard issue is moot, as, I assume, you are using a single motherboard
for the task.

>I used the stardard jumper configuration and the default as shipped was "16
>heads".  Later I noticed the original Maxtor was "15 heads".  Could this be
my >problem?  And if so,
>if I simply move the jumper to make it a 15 head drive,  will I need to
>reformat the drive?
>


[My speculation] yes, the head difference could be the problem. As for
reformat, I'm not certain, however; it is possible that if both drives are
configured as 15-head (and the correct capacity is seen by CMOS when the IBM
is so configured), you may be able to 'ghost' the drive again
(successfully), since ghost formats as it goes.

>The CMOS correctly identifies the drive with the full capacity and I can
see
>no other option to set there.  I wonder what determines if one should use
15
>heads or 16 heads?  Is there normally a clue in the CMOS that tells you?
>


Don't want to even hazard a guess on the CMOS question.

FWIW and HTH,

Paul A. Shippert        Library/Media Specialist
"There is no dark side of the moon really . . .
  matter of fact, it's all dark."  Pink Floyd
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