

In 2006 they changed the CTRL F11 restore partition to be NTFS and Norton GHOST 10. Microsoft Stopped supporting MSDOS in 2005. Repartitioning will cause the DSR process to fail because the new partition table no longer matches the reference partition table stored in the DSR partition.īecause XP is also End of life and not supported this means that there is not a legal way to do this. Many people like to repartition their hard disks to split the main "C:" partition into more than one partition.
NORTON GHOST 8.3 DOS HOW TO
I know how to do it but access to all of the tools is no longer available. The Dell Utility partition is really a DOS FAT16 partition (type 06h), but the partition descriptor (a 16-byte pointer in the partition table) has been altered to show a partition-type code of DEh instead of 06h (in hexadecimal notation). DSR (Dell System Restore) is a feature that returns a computer to its "as-shipped" state, through the use of these two specialized partitions.

Dos Navigator 5.9.0: Dos File Manager, Norton Commander clone but has much more features. Dos Command Center 5.1: Classic dos-based file manager. Partition Saver 3.11: A tool to backup/restore partitions.
NORTON GHOST 8.3 DOS SOFTWARE
Dell computers come with two hidden partitions: a Utility partition and a Restore partition. Free ghost dos download software at UpdateStar - Norton Ghost provides advanced backup and recovery for your computer. Norton Ghost 8.3: Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support). But still the above questions remain answered - especially SATA and RAID support in 8. I am really hoping that I can get it to work using 8.3 Now I have done a far bit of reading on these forums.

Re creating an XP CTRL F11 restore partition on a Dell requires a copy of Norton GHOST 8.3 and WIN9X Boot floppy and DSRFIX and the actual GHO Image file and an image of the Diagnostic partition etc. If not what is the latest DOS based Ghost that can support that drive.
