Bogus Norton Ghost Partitions: Need to Remove or Combine

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<dennise9@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> How can I remove/combine two bogus partitions put on a new
> "out of the box" Maxtor HDD by by Norton Ghost 9.0 in error.

> After many attempts, I have given up on a HDD restore effort using
> Ghost 9 to restore a backup image (generated by Ghost). All I can get
> out of repeated restore efforts are constant EA39070A error messages.

> In the process, Ghost has mysteriously created two unwanted and
> undirected empty partions on this new HDD. The drive has no data as
> the restore always fails, but there are those two unwanted partitions.

Those are just what ghost uses for its dos boot.
Its normally deleted when a restore is finished,
and is still there because the restore fails.

> I want to bail out of the dissapointing Norton Ghost
> 9 product completely as I don't trust it at all.

> How can I get rid of the two bogus partitions and just
> get this HDD back to it's original "out of the box" condition.

Just delete those partitions.

> Please do NOT suggest using Ghost for this as
> I have zero confidence in this product specifically,
> and in Symantec in general (their support is the worst
> that I have ever seen in over ten years of PC experience!).

> Are there any Windows XP tools that I can use
> to get this Maxtor ATA HDD back to "square one"?

Yep, Disk Management.