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

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McMadman

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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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...
 
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. 🙂
 
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