Goback prob

[Rifleman @ Layman's PC]

I have a customer with a Goback problem, it just stops on the little pre-winboot screen on "Please Wait"... Press the spacebar to revert the drive and get the same thing.

I've ran powermax (its a Maxtor 20.4) and it checks out fine (although the bearings are getting loud). And also I can't access the drive with goback installed so I can't recover her data.

Anyone mess with goback??? got any quick fixes???? oh yeah, these are computers, there is never a quick fix, just long work-arounds.

[jimmm33]

You said you can't access the drive. Does that mean when the drive is slaved in to your computer? Just checking. If you can access the drive by slaving it into your machine then that would be the best way.

I'm not familiar with Goback enough to know if this is feasible so forgive me, but can you boot into safe mode and uninstall Goback?

[Radical Dreamer]

To keep Goback from starting you must boot with a dos boot disk and fdisk /mbr at least thats how I did it and the data stayed intact

[Rifleman @ Layman's PC]

Ok, here it is.

No, to get into safe mode on a Goback enabled machine, you must first let Goback start. (it is a type of overlay partition sort of like EZ-BIOS, just with a different function)
No, I couldn't access the drive when slaved into my bench machine.

But here's what I did to get it working.

I downloaded an illegal copy of Goback off of my favorite p2p sharing site, (hisses and boos go here)

I installed Goback on my bench machine with the customers drive slaved in it, and after installing on the first boot after enabling Goback the system crashed during boot... I rebooted the machine and when Goback appeared I disabled Goback and rebooted.... The machine booted up to happily greet me with drive access to the customer's drive. I installed the drive back into the customer's machine and it booted fine with Goback disabled.

PS... I removed and deleted the copy of Goback the I downloaded, so don't send the cops my way!!! lol