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  • 1.  Ghost with SATA drive 'no valid source drive'

    Posted Jun 29, 2007 10:01 AM
    Hi
     
    I am tearing my hair out as I am unable to either load and image to or from some new PC's that are our first with SATA HD's.  I've read loads of messages here and elsewhere on the net but nothing seems to resolve my issue.
    I can boot the PC in DOS and get as far as mapping to our network drive that holds the images and ghost.exe but as soon as I try to either load or take an image I get an error of 'there is no valid source drive to choose'.  I've tried the switches for -fni & -noide both of which result in the same errors.  I've checked the bios on the PC as has been mentioned but do not have the option to change the SATA Emulation to Combined IDE. Have attempted to use ghost 7.5 & 8 Corp. and the trialware of latest GSS to no avail.
     
    Has anyone got any more suggestions?


  • 2.  RE: Ghost with SATA drive 'no valid source drive'

    Posted Jun 29, 2007 01:35 PM
    We currently use computers that have a SATA hard drive and the NForce4 Chipset.  We also ran into the same issue, but localized it to the fact that our DVD drive was a SATA drive and not IDE.  When we swapped an IDE DVD drive and booted into DOS from there (floppy emulation), it would understand the SATA hard drive and the error of 'no valid source' would go away.  Not sure if this makes sense as the source of the problem, but that is what we isolated.


  • 3.  RE: Ghost with SATA drive 'no valid source drive'

    Posted Jul 01, 2007 11:44 PM
    it looks like SATA hard disk is not recognised under dos. some of the SATA controller does need dos driver in order to work under dos.
    One thing I can recommend to try is...
    using winpe or bartpe. generally winpe/bartpe have better compatibility with drivers.(or at least you can install SATA driver). boot to winpe/bartpe and run ghost32.exe(which is in c:\program files\symantec\ghost directory)