Norton GoBack detects "multiboot disk" in Windows XP?

[Darrell S]

Hi Dave, hi Bob:

I've the same frustrating issue when I try to install GoBack in
Windows 2000 environments also. Perhaps my comments could be useful
in some way:

We're on a small workgroup network at home with three computers. Two
are desktops runinng Win 2K SP4 (one was an upgrade from Win 98, the
other was a clean installation) and the third is a laptop running XP
SP2. None of the computers were ever configured or partitioned for
multiple partitions or for multi-booting. For example, neither FDISK
has ever been run to alter the MBRs nor EMERGENCY REPAIR DISK been
used, and the BOOT.INI files are correct.

How do you explain this? I'm not refuting the bit about GoBack not
liking modified MBRs, but my hunch is that there might be another
cause (or causes) in addition to (or in spite of) what's been
previously mentioned. What other Windows data might GoBack be reading
to cause this erroneous determination? Has anyone come up with other
possibilities?

With a single operating system GoBack works fine. But to do its job it has
to control the drive it is backing up. I've used GoBack for many years.
Back in the "old days" when emergency boot floppies might be called for I've
had people say GoBack wouldn't let them boot from a floppy or if it did the
hard drive showed "gibberish" rather than data. They hadn't looked at the
directions which showed you must start the boot normally then hit the space
bar when the GoBack screen starts. Then you use the menu to "boot from a
floppy or CD with GoBack help". Now you put your boot floppy in, and
continue and it now boots from the floppy and the GoBack help makes the hard
drive readable.

When I got my previous computer with Win 98 on it with GoBack pre-installed
I used Partition Magic to partion my big hard drive into 2 drives. GoBack
puked. After much trial and error I learned that for something like that
you must first disable GoBack, then use Partition Magic to partition the
drives. Once that's done you can re-enable GoBack and everything works
fine.

GoBack is my first line of defense but I also use DriveImage 7.0 to keep 4
images of my hard drive as a "backup" to GoBack. I have a 200GB USB hard
drive which does the work quickly and is able to be used even if the hard
drive won't boot. (as long as the hard drive is still intact). I can boot
from the DI 7.0 CD and access my USB drive to re-write my hard drive with a
backup image.

Darrell R. Schmidt
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