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dos boot to to sata dvd drive??

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computerjock33

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Jul 31, 2006
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Just got a dell diminsion e520 that has a sata dvd drive and I need to make a bootable cd for imaging (such as ghost) any hints? or advice is appreciated
thank you
 
So you want to create a ghost image of your Dell then transfer that to a bootable disk in case you have to reload? Probably not a CD but you'll need a DVD instead.

Or are you wanting to boot to a CD then do your ghosting from there?

I think either way you'll want to start by hitting up BartPE and reading it thoroughly. That should get you what you want either way.

Cheers
Rob
 
I am wanting to boot boot to cd then do my imaging which is backed up to a novell server. I can handle everything except getting the cd/dvd driver for the sata drive to load in dos. I will check out the BartPe and see what I can find. thank you
 
Hey Computerjock33,
I am not quite sure exactly how you are going to get your sata optical drive to work with dos unless someone created a third-party drive (obviously sata was no where around when dos was).

Here is a couple things you can try:
~ Boot off of floppy disks to boot up into zenworks
~ Boot from the network over pxe

Would any of those two options work for you?
 
My recommendations would be to look into PXE booting first (we use Acronis SnapDeploy for imaging and it works great with PXE) or build a boot CD using BartPE that has all of the right drivers with it along with network support and the imaging software.
 
When you Boot from a Win98 floppy it loads drivers for the CD-ROM be able to recognize and use the drive.
So the Problem will be finding DOS SATA drivers for the CD-ROM drive to get it to be recognized. As was said before SATA was not around when DOS was so no DOD drivers for it were made.





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Yet another reason not to buy Dell. The desktops don't explode yet as far as know so far... LOL
 
ahaha dont explode YET hahah Im looking at the Bartpe and it may do (with some research) what I need to do. The boot to pxe is an excellent idea, I will want to play with that even if I get the cd going. I found a driver gcdrom.sys that is supposed to be a dos sata cdrom driver, but not having any luck with it. Anyone else come across this?
thanks again for all the advice
 
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