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| 540422 | 2007-04-12 09:34:00 | Had need of Ghost today to clone a HDD over to another. Both drives are sata II. And guess what - Ghost couldn't see them. I tried it on my PC, my sata controller (for raid) reported it, but the BIOS said no sata drives. Nor would ghost see them. Tried it on her (new) PC - ghost still wouldn't see the drives. I have used it on sata 1 drives OK. So had to download Acronis and use that. Which worked fine on her PC. Maybe time for me to move to Acronis....not to mention a new motherboard........:groan: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 540423 | 2007-08-16 00:06:00 | Did you find any program that can do SATA disks? I have the same problem.... |
justlookin (12132) | ||
| 540424 | 2007-08-16 01:05:00 | Stick with Acronis PCtek & Justlookin, works lots better. Being a tech yourself, you may want to look at the Workstation version + Universal restore, save LOTS of time doing reinstalls once you have the image made, simply change the reg owner/change product key/user - add new drivers and its all go - total reinstall, any components, programs( adobe etc) all windows updates( current till image created) install time - 10-15 minutes. Then add back customer software / data "Meant to be for single PC"Universal Restore (www.acronis.com.au) Down side - Sysprep doesn't work correctly:( |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 540425 | 2007-08-16 01:31:00 | Stick with Acronis PCtek I have got it. But I discover its still not perfect with sataII. They tell me it runs on Linux, and uses drivers and there are some issues with drivers. Totally mental if you ask me. They sent me a new .iso which I haven't yet tested on the problem PC(s). So I'm not that excited by it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 540426 | 2007-08-16 02:00:00 | I use the IT version of Shadow Protect. It doesn't do cloning as such but does take a full image of any system and puts it onto a USB drive or network share. Then you swap HDDs and run the software again to put image onto new hdd. It even allows you to add drivers to an image if you are restoring onto different hardware. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 540427 | 2007-08-16 02:11:00 | Ghost 2003 is not at all SATA friendly. I learnt it the hard way. I tried to ghost my sata drives but instead it stuffed up the OS :badpc: | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 540428 | 2007-08-16 02:23:00 | I've ghosted a few sata drives no problem. Your onboard SATA has to be set to compatibility mode so it is just like having extra IDE drives. I've found ghost to be better than acronis with bad drives. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 540429 | 2007-08-16 02:28:00 | I've ghosted a few sata drives no problem. Your onboard SATA has to be set to compatibility mode so it is just like having extra IDE drives. I've found ghost to be better than acronis with bad drives. Not starting a fight here :lol: But I have found the oppersite, Ghost stopped part way through the clone saying couldn't read sector ?????? Please contact support ( yeah Yeah) Sometimes when using Acronis, it detected bad sectors and ask weather to carry on and ignore them - Yes - carrys on. Each is different I spose.:thumbs: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 540430 | 2007-08-16 02:36:00 | Not starting a fight here :lol: But I have found the oppersite, Ghost stopped part way through the clone saying couldn't read sector ????? :lol: Ghost gives an option to "force clone" eg it will keep going and the only thing that can stop it is if the hard disk actually stops spinning. The way Acronis does the 'unable to read sector' thing is a bit better though, with Ghost if you forget to select teh force clone option, it wil get half way through then crap out (assuming your ghosting from a buggered HDD). It comes down to personal preference in the end I suppose. :D |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 540431 | 2007-08-16 02:47:00 | At what point is " Force Clone" selected, never seen that. Every time I get an error message it just stops. Maybe because I didn't select it before hand ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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