Re: Can't see all disk using FDISK

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From: Dusko Savatovic (savatovic.removespam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:30:13 +0100

I suppose you're booting Ghost from floppy, CD, usb key drive or net.
What's preventing you from changing SCSI address of the drive you want to
image to 0?

Dusko Savatovic

"Alan Morris" <alan@address-witheld.com> wrote in message
news:omf2t0hr00hglk7e4mmdtms9u3k1ufr1fo@4ax.com...
> Not quite alltogether W2K, but not sure where else to post.
>
> I want to perform an in place upgrade w2k->w2k3. The plan was to use
> Norton Ghost to image the existing system volume to a networked share
> prior to performing the upgrade to facilitate a rapid fallback in case
> of failure.
>
> However GDISK and FDISK cannot see all the drives only the first one
> and since the system volume is on the second drive this is a problem!
>
> The configuration is an Adapatec UW, so the dos boot uses aspiu2.sys.
> The adpatec bios and the aspiu2.sys driver correctly report all three
> disks as well as the scsi tape unit However both GDISK and FDISK only
> 'see' the 2 partitions on the first drive.
>
> All disks are configured as BASIC disks in W2K.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks

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