Ghosting from ATA to SATA - possible?

[Kaido]

I've read that you can take a Norton Ghost image and transfer if to a different size hard drive if you upgrade your hard drive on the computer. Is it possible to take the same Ghost image and transfer it from an ATA primary hard drive to an SATA primary hard drive? I'm thinking about getting a WD 74gb SATA Raptor and using my current ATA 80gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda as the backup drive. Would the image transfer over or would it screw up because it's not being replaced by another ATA drive?

 

[NumbaJuan]

No problem at all. If the system recognizes both drives Norton Ghost will do the rest.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I've read that you can take a Norton Ghost image and transfer if to a different size hard drive if you upgrade your hard drive on the computer. Is it possible to take the same Ghost image and transfer it from an ATA primary hard drive to an SATA primary hard drive? I'm thinking about getting a WD 74gb SATA Raptor and using my current ATA 80gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda as the backup drive. Would the image transfer over or would it screw up because it's not being replaced by another ATA drive?

Should work fine, just make sure of two things - that your mobo BIOS can boot the OS off of the SATA ports, and that you install the SATA drivers for Windows, *before* you ghost to the other drive. Otherwise, you will get a BSOD about "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE" during boot, most likely.

If you are running some flavor of XP, then you could possibly do a repair re-installation, on top of the existing OS, to fix that.

 

[Carrot44]

I have the exact same HD set up but my Raptor is sitting on the floor now
Where does one get the SATA drivers for Windows?

Ken

 

[bacillus]

it should be on your m/board cd.

 

[imported_LobbDogg]

I have heard a number of people that have trouble with Ghost and using SATA drives or even RAID drives. There have been a lot of mixed answers. Some people claim they have gotten it to go while others haven't had much luck. Maybe the ones who couldn't get it to run didn't know how to set it up. LOL. Another program I've heard to work better with SATA and RAID combinations has been a program called Acronis True Image.

 

[Carrot44]

Originally posted by: bacillus
it should be on your m/board cd.

I don't have my MB CD and never got one the mb was OEM.

It is a Asus P4P800

 

[SUOrangeman]

When the proper steps are followed, ...

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1327898 (a few posts donw)

-SUO

 

[Sideswipe001]

Older versions of Ghost have issues with SATA drives. They are spotty at working at all- We upgraded here at work from Ghost (corporate edition) 7.0 to 8.0 and that solved all the SATA issues. I hear that Ghost 2004 does the same thing.

 

[Oyeve]

Worked for me and i used ghost 2003. Went from a 40gb ATA hd to a 250gb SATA drive with no problems.