Restoring an image with norton ghost 9 on an SATA drive

[Special K]

Last week I made an image with norton ghost 9 of a single partition on an SATA HD. Now I have added a 2nd one for a RAID1 array. I formatted, installed winXP pro, and then ghost. I went through the steps to restore a backup image, and ghost tells me to put the CD in and reboot to do the restoration process. I do this, and then when ghost launches, it doesn't detect my SATA drives. I have searched on google for a long time now and can't figure out how to make ghost work with SATA drives.

I tried booting from a win98 floppy and running NG that way, but once I get to the DOS prompt I can't access my HDs from there either.

How can I restore this image?

 

[Robor]

I had issues with Ghost working in Windows to backup/restore a drive. IMO the easiest way to use Ghost is good ole DOS. I'm not sure, does Ghost9 boot to a prompt from CD? If it doesn't then Ghost 2003 does. Even though you can't do a "C: or D:" to the drives Ghost will usually "see" them once it's launched. I think it's on the Ghost 2003 CD. Boot with it then change to the "Support" directory and you should have ghost.exe there. Launch it and you should be good to go.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Robor
I had issues with Ghost working in Windows to backup/restore a drive. IMO the easiest way to use Ghost is good ole DOS. I'm not sure, does Ghost9 boot to a prompt from CD? If it doesn't then Ghost 2003 does. Even though you can't do a "C: or D:" to the drives Ghost will usually "see" them once it's launched. I think it's on the Ghost 2003 CD. Boot with it then change to the "Support" directory and you should have ghost.exe there. Launch it and you should be good to go.

I just went back to Ghost 2003, which never gave me any problems, and didn't this time either. Turns out Ghost 9 is just a rebadged version of DriveImage, and has a lot of issues with it. Ghost 2003 is much better, and identified my drives right away.