Ontrack DDO

Nefarious

Nefarious

Nefarious

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I'm trying to clone a drive that allocates the drive via software (Dynamic Drive Overlay) rather than through BIOS info.

Does anyone know software that will do this?

I have tried something called Acronis because someone told me that it could but have had no success.
 
if you explain a bit more maybe we could help you out?

what kinda of drive? what did it come from etc?
 
The drive is a 2.5" drive that comes from a small device runs off the internal harddrive using DOS and the tards who designed it made it with a P166 guts using a BIOS that is so dated it can only read sub gig drives. To overcome this they used IBM disk software made by OnTrack called dynamic drive overlay to achieve a Unixwsque ignoring of the BIOS.

There are several of these devices but one of them has a shagged drive, rather than pay their exorbitant charges for repair (they are also based State side and would take ages to ship) it should be a relatively simple operation to copy the disks (if it weren't for their unwillingness to use a BIOS that can read anything made within the last 15 years).
 
I've tried running Acronis from windows and I've tried creating an Acronis boot disk - neither of these seem to be able to copy the drive's DDO software.

I'm going to try a NortonGhost 2003 boot disk - until I can find out how to do it another way I've got no tricks up my sleeve other than trying various pieces of proprietry software! (Makes me sound like an idiot but there we are)
 
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