WD Data Lifeguard Tools 10.0 - Am I the only one that finds this funny?

[McMadman]

Maybe its just me, but it seems funny that the "simple setup disk" dosen't even work, good old fashioned fdisk and partition magic did the trick however.

I figured I'd try using this disk that came with my drive, after the initial GUI loaded, and install disk was clicked, it dropped to a prompt with the following error message

CauseWay DOS Extender v3.40 Copyright 1992-98 Michael Devore.
All rights reserved.

Exception: 0E, Error code: 0004

EAX=00000000 EBX=00004AEB ECX=FFFFF057 EDX=000000B4 ESI=00B10058
EDI=00B11000 EBP=00AC5034 ESP=00AC501C EIP=00473A9F EFL=00013211

CS=01A7-FFBCB000 DS=01AF-FFBCB000 ES=01AF-FFBCB000
FS=0000-xxxxxxxx GS=0000-xxxxxxxx SS=01AF-FFBCB000

CR0=00000000 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 TR=0000

Info flags=00008040

Program Linear Load Address: 00435000

 

[Softballslug]

Its most likely not a problem with the software but a physical problem with the floppy disk.

 

[McMadman]

I tried it on my other computer (without a WD drive) and it loaded fine, shrug. None of those included disks have have ever worked correctly, no wonder I've always relied on fdisk for making normal fat(32) partitions.

 

[TheWart]

the only times i use the WD tools disk are when i have a rma issue and to verify it they want me to run the full disk scan and when i want to do a hardcore reformat and write zeros to every sector of the disk.

 

[McMadman]

Thats about the only thing that those disks have been good for, and I've always just downloaded JUST the diagnostic disk from the site instead of the full thing.

 

[Softballslug]

Originally posted by: McMadman
I tried it on my other computer (without a WD drive) and it loaded fine, shrug. None of those included disks have have ever worked correctly, no wonder I've always relied on fdisk for making normal fat(32) partitions.

I guess I have been lucky since I have never had a problem. However, I don't use them much either. I use either XP or 2K and let it delete, create and format the partitions...

 

[McMadman]

I've only bothered trying to use them a couple of times, I need to stick to fat32 for partitions due to 98s lack of proper ntfs support, good old bootable cds with various tools that work on them.