problems w Ghost and SATA drive

[scottindb]

Hey all, new to the forums, just had a quick question I was hoping you could assist me with.

I have a Dell Dimension 8300, w an 80gb Hitachi Desk Star that came with it. Just purchased a 200gb Seagate Barracude SATA drive.

I hooked the SATA drive up, Windows detected it, I then booted w a boot disk, ran ghost.exe, and copied disk to disk. Seemed to work flawlessly, I ran the integrity check, etc.. but it wouldnt 'boot' to the new drive, always to the old, even after changing the boot sequence.

I then disconnected the old drive (I still have it of course) and tried to boot that way. It seems to push through, gets to the start of the GUI, the Windows splash screen, but instead of bringing up the 'login' box (windows XP) it just hangs there at the WinXP screen. Any ideas?

 

[pweegar]

Sounds like you need to install the SATA driver when XP is installed. Done by pressing the F^ when you are asked if you need to load any other SCSI drivers.

 

[scottindb]

So being that XP is already installed and the drive was ghosted from an existing OS and existing software, would it be something that the 'repair' option in XP would fix? I'd hate to have to reinstall the entire OS but will if I must.

 

[wolluf]

I'm surprised its even getting to the Windows splash screen with no SATA drivers. The repair reinstall option may sort it (

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341)

- press F6 to load the SATA drivers (you have got them on a floppy - should be on the mobo's install CD - and/or on the mobo manufacturer's website?). Though, if you've booted machine from other drive with SATA drive present, you may have problems with system drive letters (might be better wiping SATA drive, ghosting it again, then doing repair reinstall immediately with just SATA drive connected).

 

[pmonett]

I switched to SATA at my last mainboard upgrade. Did that by adding a converter to my IDE disk.
When XP came up, I used the Repair option, loaded the SATA drivers (be sure to get the latest version), and it's been running fine ever since.
Unfortunately, it seems that Ghost is incapable of working with my IDE-to-SATA setup. I sent a mail to support, and their answer is that it is a BIOS problem (obviously not their fault, nooo sir).

Pascal.