Drive Image 2002: Error #91 Western Digital Hard Drive

Hi
I have exactly the same problem. Was this ever actually resolved?
Also-I am trying to find the "Patch" program and can't.
Mine won't work with either a Maxtor or WD drive. I was only able to
restore by using my daughters Windows partitioned and formatted
drive. Seems both Maxtor and WD must use disk manager in some way. I
called Maxtor and they had me use their tools to "Write zeros to
first 512K" which had no effect.
Dr J-did you re-try running the Patch and other program?

Finally-is there simply a better program to do this with?

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zion6 wrote:
Hi
I have exactly the same problem. Was this ever actually resolved?
Also-I am trying to find the "Patch" program and can't.
Mine won't work with either a Maxtor or WD drive. I was only able to
restore by using my daughters Windows partitioned and formatted
drive. Seems both Maxtor and WD must use disk manager in some way. I
called Maxtor and they had me use their tools to "Write zeros to
first 512K" which had no effect.
Dr J-did you re-try running the Patch and other program?

Finally-is there simply a better program to do this with?

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Here we go again:
This works!

Drive Image 2002 comes with a tool called WRPROG (it is located in the
Utility folder on the program CD) that can export head 0 to a file.
A tool call PATCH enables you to INITIALIZE the part AFTER offset $01FF
(=directly after the MBR (1st sector: 0-511))...Offset 512 - 32255. There
resides the disk manager's signature.
For instruction on how to perform this, pleas read the following steps:

First get Patch from:
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...ties/patch.zip

a. Run wrprog.exe to make a backup of the data contained in the hard disk's
first head. To create the backup, enter the following command at the DOS
prompt:

WRPROG /bak head0.dat.

b. Run patch.exe.
c. Press 'N' and navigate to the head0.dat file.
d. Press F12 to open the head0.dat file
e. Press F2.
f. In the Byte Position field, type 512, and then press ENTER.
g. Press CTRL+K, B.
h. Press F2.
i. In the Byte Position field, type 32255, and then press ENTER.
j. Press CTRL+K, K.
k. Press CTRL+K, =.
l. In the Fill Value field, type 0, and then press ENTER.
m. Press F9 to save.
n. Press F12, and then press Y to quit.

Restore the head 0 file (without disk manager) using the syntax:

WRPROG /rst head0.dat.

This procedure will eliminate the presence of a disk manager.
Unfortunately this will only work for the first primary master disk, one
cannot specify an other disk to process. To process also a second HDD
temporarily take out the boot disk, boot from floppy with WRPROG and PATCH
on it and repeat the above steps...

More info on WRPROG read:
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/primus/id4350.html

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"

Thank you Michael.
I will give it a try. I am a novice so I appreciate your patience. I
was wondering however, in the WRPROG program you backup the head0
and then run Patch-and restore, Arent you restoring the head0.dat
with disk manager still on it?

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zion6 wrote:
Thank you Michael.
I will give it a try. I am a novice so I appreciate your patience. I
was wondering however, in the WRPROG program you backup the head0
and then run Patch-and restore, Arent you restoring the head0.dat
with disk manager still on it?

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Hi zion6,
If you went through the outlined steps again you would notice the steps that
would zero out the presence of the disk manager (Steps j through l).

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"

Thanks
Ran the Win XP Recovery Console wit the "fixmbr" command and I'm back
in business.
From Recovery Console
fixmbr \device\HardDisk0
fixmbr \device\HardDisk1

Ignore any non compatible messages.

Thanks for your help!

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