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| Thread ID: 34828 | 2003-06-25 01:37:00 | ghost 2003 failed on serial ata | chinadoll (682) | Press F1 |
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| 154966 | 2003-06-25 01:37:00 | Hi, i had a bad experience with ghost 2003 on backup my c-drive to the partition, drive d. (basic-backup) i had followed the ghost wizard instruc tion, step by step screen by screen,( selected the source and destination) untill it prompt computer will restart for proceeding backup produre to destination drive, but it stay at ghost screen and would not go any further. me and my friend had tried every thing but would not make it to go.finally we have to reinstall windows. i wander if may ghost 2003 are no compatible to serial ata drive? any opinion will be much appreciated. thank you. |
chinadoll (682) | ||
| 154967 | 2003-06-25 04:06:00 | I feel your pain. Had the exact same thing happen to me when building my new PC recently. For the record, you don't need to reinstall Windows. I tried ALL the things recommended on Norton's site for resolving the problem but none of them worked. I even tried Partition Magic in an attempt to delete the Ghost virtual Partition that was preventing me booting back into Windows. I was on the verge of re-formating and re-installing Windows when someone suggested I try - as a last ditch measure - good old fdisk off a Win98 boot floppy. Bingo - fdisk let me delete the Ghost partition and return my main one as the active Dos partition - 30 seconds work and I was back in business. I was extremely disappointed that the Norton site did not suggest this as a possible fix. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 154968 | 2003-06-25 04:10:00 | I use powerquest drive image 2002 myself easy as to use and reliable not as powerful or complex as ghost but user friendly counts a lot for me | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 154969 | 2003-06-25 04:46:00 | What was the drive BTW? Mine was a Seagate Barracuda SATA V 80GB. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 154970 | 2003-06-25 04:48:00 | Have tried both DI & Ghost, but find the easist - and never failed yet - Nero HD Image. With a partitioned C drive, and all the OS & important progs on it, it is far quicker than the others. Only disadvantage, it will only back up to CD's. In my case this is only 2.38gb so fits on 4 CD's. The D drive also has this on as bootable, so if the HD fails I only have to make that the Master. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 154971 | 2003-06-25 04:48:00 | kiwlbeat, is it the powerquest drive image 2002 work on serial ata drive? thank you. |
chinadoll (682) | ||
| 154972 | 2003-06-25 05:03:00 | thank you peter, what i have been tried to do is i just build a p4 208g ht with asus p4c800 m/b and want to backup/clone the basic o/s with all drives and updates for furture recovery. quite diappointed that norton did not put out the patch to make ghost 2003 compatible to serial ata connect. thank you. |
chinadoll (682) | ||
| 154973 | 2003-06-25 05:06:00 | hi, bruce, me too! thank you. |
chinadoll (682) | ||
| 154974 | 2003-06-25 05:14:00 | Be interesting to see if this is a problem with all SATA drives or if it is specific to the Seagate drive. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 154975 | 2003-06-25 05:17:00 | Incidently, that was my second drive. The first (brand new) one I got failed when WinXP was formatting it. Nothing we did could get any life out of it (powered up but refused to be recognised by any PC we put it in), so I returned it and got a replacement. I then formatted the replacement with Segate's own drive utilty first before installing XP. Apart from my Ghost problem, it's been a happy chap since then. | Biggles (121) | ||
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