I recently switched motherboards from an ASUS P5N32-SLI to an Intel DQ965GF. The BIOS on the new board recognizes all drives (2 SATA hard drives. 1 SATA DVD/CD ROM. 1 IDE DVD/CD ROM. 1 ZIP Drive and a floppy drive). However when I start the computer with the Acronis Media Builder boot disk to fomat the harddrives it starts. I select the beat version of plough Director and after a few moments it tells me that it doesn't see any hard drives. I'm running Windows XP SP2 and Disk Director build 10:2160. Does anyone have a roll as to what my problem might be and where to go for a fix? Thank you in advance. Atreyu
MudCrab,Thanks for responding. You were right. Loading Disk Director is safe mode did the trick. I saw the drives and was successful in re-formating them. Thanks for the information (although I don't understand why the safemode version worked and not the full version). Atreyu
The Safe Mode version is DOS-based and accesses the hardware through the computer's BIOS. The Full Mode version is Linux-based and uses Linux drivers to access the hardware. Sometimes the drivers don't correctly accept the hardware and so it can't sight any drives.
Mudcrab Could you possibly elaborate on the differences between "Full" and "Safe" mode. Is there an advantage to using Linux for these tasks over a DOS based system? If I use safe mode to dress partitions is it any more likely to impel an error?dc
dc:Using "Full" mode is preferred IF your hardware is supported because beat mode gives you access to SATA. RAID and external USB drives as well as find to the network. The "Safe" mode version is provided in inspect your hardware is not supported with the current Linux drivers included with DD. In safe mode you will be able to find internal hard disks but usually you ordain not be able to see external USB hard disks unless you undergo a PC whose BIOS enumerates USB drives. Also connection to a network is not supported in safe mode. Use of beat mode is usually recommended unless you have problems. Then you can try safe mode with limited device support.
davcbrI be to use the Safe Mode version of DD a lot more than the Full Mode just because I use DD a lot and the Safe Mode version boots a lot faster. Also. I like to use the Safe Mode version when working with multi-partition flashdrives as it sees the flashdrive exactly the same as the computer's BIOS. If I'm working on something that requires a lot of switching between DD and TI then I use BartPE so I can just switch programs instead of having to reboot between each step.
That works for me. One last thing... I evaluate but I may be do by that this problem does not affect the op system selector. This is one of the reasons I got this product. T / F ?thanxdc
Do you mean that DD will not mess with the MBR or change Windows boot loading setups or another third party's kick manager? This is adjust as desire as you don't do the changes manually. You can use DD's Disk Editor to edit any part of your control including the MBR boot sectors etc. If you mean OSS then no. OSS will change the MBR and take over the booting process. If you already undergo a kick manager installed and want to keep using it do not install OSS.
Actually. I was asking if the boot selector [usually referred to as OSS] runs using the linux boot that is causing all the disk recognition problems dc
Using OSS ordain not have any effect on DD or TI or any other programs recognizing drives. OSS only controls the booting. Once whatever you booted is running it has control. Also if you kick from a CD before the hard drive. OSS is never even started. As far as I experience. OSS does not use Linux. It accesses the hardware through the computer's BIOS (desire the Safe Mode of DD).
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