Ghost 2003 w/SATA Drive

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Donny Broome

I normally use Norton Ghost 2003, by booting from a bootable DOS CD and
running ghost.exe from the CD. However, yesterday, on a system with a single
WD SATA drive, Ghost would not start. It was if it didn't recognize the
drive. (PartitionMagic, from DOS, could see the drive, just fine.)

I resorted to booting into a 32-bit environment (Bart's PE) and using
Ghost32, which worked fine.

My question is, does anyone have any specific information on why booting
from DOS and using Ghost 2003 wouldn't work?

Thank You,
 
Donny Broome said:
I normally use Norton Ghost 2003, by booting from a bootable DOS CD and
running ghost.exe from the CD. However, yesterday, on a system with a
single WD SATA drive, Ghost would not start. It was if it didn't recognize
the drive. (PartitionMagic, from DOS, could see the drive, just fine.)

I resorted to booting into a 32-bit environment (Bart's PE) and using
Ghost32, which worked fine.

My question is, does anyone have any specific information on why booting
from DOS and using Ghost 2003 wouldn't work?

Thank You,
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Donny:
We routinely use Ghost 2003 for cloning purposes involving SATA drives (WD,
Hitachi, Maxtor, Samsung) and haven't run into any problems that we could
attribute to the SATA interface. In nearly all cases we use a Ghost 2003
bootable floppy disk to perform the cloning operation, although on occasion
(but much more infrequently) we do use a Ghost 2003 bootable CD as
apparently you do.

A few questions...

1. You say you "run(ning) ghost.exe" from the Ghost bootable CD. You don't
actually (manually) invoke the ghost.exe command do you? The Ghost CD will
boot to the opening Ghost screen, right? (At least when it's working!).

2. Was there some reason you used Ghost with a *single* connected drive and
didn't have a destination drive connected? Of course even with only one HD
connected the CD should still boot to the Ghost opening screen.

3. Have you created your Ghost bootable CD from the 2003.793 build? This is
important because there were some problems involving SATA drives with the
Ghost 2003 program when the program was originally released and for some
time thereafter until Symantec released some updates.

4. And you're sure the CD works without problems when PATA drives are
involved, right?
Anna
 
Anna:

I think you've answered my question. I was using Ghost 2003 Build 775. I'm
going to run Live Update and try it again.

Yes, I was manually envoking Ghost, because it's a custom boot cd with a
copy of ghost.exe on it. This works just fine.

There was not a 2nd drive, I was I was performing an PARTITION to IMAGE FILE
clone, using one drive wth two partitions.

Thanks,

Donny
 
Donny:
Just one thing. Using LiveUpdate, you may receive the 789 build and *not*
the 793 build. If that does happen, just retry LiveUpdate and you'll get the
793 build.
Anna
 
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