Norton Ghost 2003 on a SATA-only system

[cyberia]

I have an original Ghost 2003 bootable CD. I am trying to do a backup image of an entire hard drive of a brand new SATA-only system.

For some reason, the PC boots off the CD but fails to assign any drive letters to the SATA DVD drives or hard drives.

Is Ghost 2003 too old for this purpose? Or is there something I can do to get it to work?

Thanks.

 

[Thor86]

Run the Ghost.exe with "-noide" switch to detect SATA drives.

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: Thor86
Run the Ghost.exe with "-noide" switch to detect SATA drives.

That's the whole point. How do I run that command? The PC boots off the CD, it creates an in-memory virtual drive I guess, and then announces that no valid CD-ROM drivers were installed and does not assign any drive letters to the optical drives.

So, how do I manually issue the command if no drive letter is assigned to the optical drive? So, I can't use the optical drives once it boots even though it boots off one of them.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: cyberia

Originally posted by: Thor86
Run the Ghost.exe with "-noide" switch to detect SATA drives.

That's the whole point. How do I run that command? The PC boots off the CD, it creates an in-memory virtual drive I guess, and then announces that no valid CD-ROM drivers were installed and does not assign any drive letters to the optical drives.

So, how do I manually issue the command if no drive letter is assigned to the optical drive? So, I can't use the optical drives once it boots even though it boots off one of them.

... if it boots, at what point does it fail? Does Ghost even launch?

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

... if it boots, at what point does it fail? Does Ghost even launch?

That's the weird part. It does boot at first, so there is a DOS (?) driver for the optical drive that works.

However, just before it gives me the DOS prompt and "invites" me to run Ghost, it says that no optical drives are found and does not assign drive letters to them. So, I cannot run Ghost since I cannot specify which drive letter the CD is (the command to run Ghost is "English [drive_letter]").

 

[GeekDrew]

Ah... so do you end up at a DOS prompt, then? If so, what drive letter does it drop you at (I would assume A, and does anything useful (such as ghost.exe) appear when you ask for a directory listing (using the command DIR)?

 

[cyberia]

I am not near that PC right now, but it is A:.

When I do dir, it does not list ghost.exe. It lists a bunch of "language-specific" batch files (English.bat, Deutsch.bat etc.) and typical device drivers (oakcdrom.sys, atapi.sys etc.).

It appears to be the RAM drive that is created during the PC-DOS boot process. According to the message given before the prompt, you run Ghost by typing

<language> <CDdriveletter> (example - English c: )

And that's what I cannot do. There is no drive letter for either DVD drive.

 

[GeekDrew]

Ah... without seeing it, I don't think I'm going to be of much help.

Have you checked the BIOS config to see if IDE emulation (or whatever they call it) is enabled?

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Have you checked the BIOS config to see if IDE emulation (or whatever they call it) is enabled?

There is an option like that? I will check tonight.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: cyberia

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Have you checked the BIOS config to see if IDE emulation (or whatever they call it) is enabled?

There is an option like that? I will check tonight.

There may not be on yours, but I have seen IDE emulation for SATA hard drives in some BIOS configs... couldn't hurt to check.