Recently installed a SATA drive. Have used Ghost 2002 for years. Now I need
to disable SATA drive controller in Bios prior to running Ghost otherwise it
freezes the computer during loading of Ghost.exe. The reason this is a
problem is that I purchased the extra drive for the purpose of using it as
storage for things such as my mirrored images. Anyone else had this problem.
How are the upgrades working (V10 I guess)?

Thanks
Howard

"Howard Nelson" wrote:

If by "mirroring" you mean "cloning", give Casper XP
a try. It's a dedicated cloner that sits installed in the
OS just like any other program, and it doesn't involve
restarting the OS before or after the copying operation.
And unlike Ghost v.9 or 10, it doesn't need to have
.NET Framework installed. You can download a 30-day
free trial copy of Casper XP from:
www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .

Like Ghost, Casper XP lets you copy an entire HD to
become the entirety of another HD, or it can copy just
a single partition from one HD to another HD that
already has some partitions on it. Some other cloning
utilities, such as Acronis' True Image, can't do that
without an intermediary step of making an image file
onto some 3rd medium and then "restoring" that
image to the destination HD.

*TimDaniels*

Howard Nelson <htnelsonvip@pacbell.net> wrote:

Yes, those dinosaur Ghosts can have a problem with sata drives.

Its a completely hopeless product now. Completely different
product with the same name, quite a bit of capability gone
completely now and some of the other detail very badly
implemented, particularly the hot imaging which doesnt do
the job properly and risks your data because it doesnt.

You cant even just avoid using what is risky because
you cant image from the bootable CD anymore.

Use True Image instead.

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote:
Unlikely.

The reason it wont clone just one partition instead
of the entire physical drive is because hardly anyone
is silly enough to want to do that. And it makes a lot
more sense to image instead of clone anyway.

And True Image leaves Casper XP for dead capability
wise too. Proper incremental and differential hot images,
and full file level backup as well.

Did you try the Ghost disk access options?
Can't remember if the hardware IDE access is enabled, but you only need Int13.

"Howard Nelson" <htnelsonvip@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:2eN0g.66203$H71.7739@newssvr13.news.prodigy.c om...

"Rod Speed" grumped:

Like it says above: "It's a dedicated cloner."
That means it does just cloning - and it does that
better than True Image, and it's cheaper than
both True Image and Ghost.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
You dont even know that that is what he wants.

No it doesnt.

Wrong, its the SAME price as True Image and
TI is a hell of a lot more for the same price.

And pity about
http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cl...le&scoring=mrd

"Rod Speed" signed wanly:
Ahhh! And neither do you. But I *did* say:
"If by "mirroring" you mean "cloning", give Casper XP
a try."



Does too! Does Too!



Yes, it seems that Acronis *had* to bring the price down
when they introduced the True Image Workstation Edition
as it was overpriced because it can't clone single partitions
like Ghost and Casper XP both can. Pity. <sniff>

But of the remaining mainstream utilities that *can* clone
single partitions, Casper XP is a *lot* cheaper and a *lot*
easier to use.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
I wasnt stupid enough to suggest a steaming turd that can only
do cloning, what I suggested can do everything he might want
to do FOR THE SAME PRICE AS THAT STEAMING TURD.

Pointless when TI can do much more than that FOR THE SAME PRICE.

No it doesnt.

No had to about it, you silly little pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.

Pity only fools are stupid enough to want to do that.

Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.

FOR THE SAME PRICE TI CAN DO A HELL OF A
LOT MORE THAN CASPER XP AND ONLY A FOOL
WOULD BE SILLY ENOUGH TO PAY THE SAME
PRICE FOR MUCH LESS CAPABILITY.

You qualify.

"Rod Speed" steamed:

Ahh! But your steaming turd can't clone a single
partition - it has to clone the entire hard drive.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
Fuck all are stupid enough to do that.
Images make MUCH more sense.

In spades with incremental/differential images.

"Rod Speed" whispered:

You can't boot an image.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
Even someone as stupid as you should be able to work out
how to restore an image, if someone was actually stupid
enough to lend you a seeing eye dog and a white cane.

And if you do need to boot a clone, even someone
as stupid as you should be able to work out how to
clone a physical drive, if someone was actually stupid
enough to lend you a seeing eye dog and a white cane.

Eric Gisin wrote:
ghost -FNI and/or -NOIDE switches make it work with SATA,
dell's need to set combination in the bios too.

Last version of the ghost dos app was ghost 2003

--
Mike

Wrong.
There was Ghost 8.0, 8.2 and 32-bit versions of those to use in WinPE
environment.

"Rod Speed" wrote-wrote:
Ahhh! "restore an image" - the extra step and futzing
with another archival medium. Why? - because you
can't boot an image. True Image requires one to first
*restore* the image from archival media, *then* boot
what has been restored. In an emergency, that's a
hassle, and there's the danger that you'd "restore" over
a partition that you want to save. Casper XP doesn't
present that danger nor that hassle. Casper XP can
make single partition clones that can be directly booted,
just like Ghost and its predecessor Drive Image, but at
a lower cost than Ghost and with greater simplicity,
without the need for.NET Framework and restarting.
For cloning, Casper XP is superior to all other cloning
utilities.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
No need for another archival medium, the
images go where the clone goes, cretin.

Because you can keep more than one image
and can do incremental and differential images too.

You quite sure you aint one of those
rocket scientist fuckwit children ?

You quite sure you aint one of those
rocket scientist fuckwit children ?

Any emergency is a hassle, fuckwit.

Just as true of cloning, fuckwit.

Pig ignorant lie.

Wrong again. Its got a different hassle, all you
can do is clone the whole partition again, you
cant do an incremental or differential clone.

And they can ALL clone entire physical drives
if you are stupid enough to want to do that.

And its missing heaps of other stuff that
True Image can do. For the same price too.

Wrong, as always, and only fools clone anyway.

"Rod Speed" wrote:

You would put the restored OS right where the image file
resides? No can do.

And with a clone, there is no *restore* step, no transfer
of data from one place to another. You just boot it up
where it lies. You can't do that with image files. *You*
may want to keep track of which increment has to be
restored and all the log books and diaries and stacks
of CDs. I'd rather just boot up "the other hard drive"
than go through all that hassle. Clones remove all the
accounting hassle. And with a cloning utility such as
Casper XP, you can put multiple clones on a HD, any
one of which can be booted at any time. True Image
won't let you put a clone among pre-existing partitions -
a major shortcoming.

*TimDaniels*

Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
Never ever said anything like that, stupid.

You can actually with True Image.

With image files you get a host of other advantages,
you can do incremental and differential hot images.

A decent imager keeps track of that for you.

Dont need any of that, any decent imager looks after all of that for you.

Dont need that either. THE IMAGE FILES GO WHERE
YOU ARE CURRENTLY PUTTING THE CLONE, CRETIN.

None of that hassle at all with a decent imager.

So does a decent imager.

With any decent imager you can have as
many images as you like on a HD too.

A decent imager can restore any of the images at any time.

Only fools want to do that. Everyone else uses images and
get the massive advantages of incremental and differential
hot images too. You dont get that with clones.

Only in your pathetic little drug crazed pig ignorant fantasyland, child.

"Rod Speed" flailed:

And where is "the imager"? If it's on the drive that just failed,
you're hosed.



And the clone can be booted where it lies - no other HD needed.
An image file has to be *restored* to another HD to be booted.

No, image files are for people who like accounting.
Clones are for people who want to get on with life.

*TimDaniels*