Originally posted by Christian:
A quick question though. Would something like GoBack directly affect
the ability to read it when it's not a boot drive ? I guess it must write to the boot sector or something.
Simple answer , yes. If the drive is not the boot drive, and the boot drive does not have GoBack, it will not read the GoBack drive until it is installed. It actually uses a form of drivers to be able to read the partitions.
Simple explanation , that's pushing it.  I'll try and explain it as best as I can.
GoBack makes a hard drive basically have partitions within a partition. A GoBack partition on any computer without GoBack will show up as "Unknown File System" or "Non-DOS" (if using Fdisk). Within that mystery file system is the actual partitions you created, such as FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS.
It does write to the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard drive. Use any program or utility you want to erase the hard drive, and GoBack will still show up on boot on a hard drive that is supposedly blank. Only a few ways to remove GoBack. The two I use are:
1. Uninstall GoBack once booted to Windows. (Only possible if the computer you are using is actually booting into Windows, obviously.)
2. Use the FDISK /MBR command at a command prompt. This will erase the MBR from the drive and re-write it with a brand new one. So bye bye GoBack.
See I tried to make that simple, but I can never do it. 
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