Anybody know how to recover from a GoBacked drive

[TBoneit]

I know GoBack is bad, not my computer.

Got a computer with a Maxtor drive going bad. Drive has Goback 4.xx

Disable will not disable since it stops at 10% forever

Want to ghost to another drive, however Ghost will only do that one way and that didn't go.I'd like to get the pictures and stuff off of this drive before it totally goes. Maxtor utilities didn't help. They only identified the drive as bad and suggested backing it up. Gee I knew that.I downloaded the GB_PROG.EXE from nortons website and ran it a gb_prog.exe /u... Sticks at 10%

Any ideas that are low to no cost?

I've been working on computers for years but this is the first time I've hit this particular problem. Usually I can just disable goback but this dang drive is damaged and won't disable. I Can't even choose the boot from a floppy then run ghost option since it never finishes booting that way. I suspect that is due to the damage to the drive.

Thanks


Edit: I found a switch that is supposed to force a uninstall "GB_PROG /F" which warns that it may leave corrupted files and to run scandisk afterwards.

Going off to test.

[redwudz]

I had problems with GoBack on a computer I worked on that I was going to update to XP from W98. I reformatted the drive and I couldn't find any way to remove it. It would lock up on boot looking for the GoBack file. I guess I should have tried to remove it first.

It apparently writes itself into the MBR of the drive. It was an older 20GB, so I just tossed it finally and put a 30GB I had laying around. I suppose if you could rewrite the MBR you could get rid of it. I grew to hate that program rapidly.

I didn't try any data recovery program, as I had already gotten all the needed files off it, but there may be one out there that can work around the GoBack crap.

[TBoneit]

Well you could have downloaded GB_PROG.EXE from Symantec, they had a link in one of their webpages on problem solving. That is what I ended up using. and GB_PROG /U should uninstall. In my case it didn't because the drive was dying. Now the computer will not boot with that drive hooked up. Even a Dos boot to use Ghost won't finish.

[kschang]

Sorry to hear that.

GB is a good idea, but needs a lot more refinement. Bascially it's system restore points, but taken to the extreme so it can reconstruct the HD state. Uninstall GB basically means you have to fry the entire GB hidden file structure (which can take a LOT of space on the HD, up to 20% in some cases) AND the MBR bootstrap loader that does the initial boot UI. It took almost THREE HOURS to uninstall itself from my HD and this is a 200 GB Maxtor that's NOT that slow!

I've stopped using it and I don't really miss it. When I needed it to work it didn't. So "ciao" it goes.

[doorman]

hi if u want to image a drive to a new drive norton ghost 2003 is the only reliable prog i image my raid array now and then and have rebuilt the array 2 drives no prob single drive is even simpler as long as your problem drive runs long enough to create the image.lots of feedback on web about probs with other progs.


cheers doorman

[Poppa_Meth]

Personally I've had several issues with Ghost in the past. Acronis has never failed though.

[TBoneit]

Well FWIW I've had no issues with Ghost other than because I use a 2003 version that I have to add a couple of command line switches to keep it from locking up with SATA drives. It has always cloned what I wanted cloned. I have even used it from the DOS Boot flopy version to create a restorable image on a DVD drive.