Ghost Solution Suite

I have a GX280 system from Dell and it has a combination of Sata and IDE drive ports on the mother board.  I have a SATA HDD and an IDE CD ROM drive in the system now.  I was getting an "Invalid destination drive" error when trying to clone the system.  I performed all manner of hardware checks to make sure that everything was working properly and it was.  I then realized that Ghost might be trying to default to the IDE drives first without ever switching over to try the SATA drives so I disabled all drives in the BIOS except for the SATA drive and the clone task worked.

Obviously, I can't go around manually disabling the other drives in the BIOS for all my other GX280's that we have so I was wondering if there was a switch for the clone task that would make Ghost first try to clone to a SATA drive and in the case of that not working then going to an IDE drive.  Would anyone be able to help me with this?

Try adding these switches:

-FNI -NOIDE

This may resolve the issue.

I've also tried it with the "-FFX", "-FNI", "-FNX -FFI", and "-FNX -FNI" switches.  I have the error text files and I've posted them in the initial post up top for you to see.

Ok.  I found out what the real issue is here.  The reason this doesn't work right is because my console task is set to clone to the destination drive 1 but the SATA HDD gets enumerated as disk 2 because there is a ZIP 250 drive in there which takes the disk 1 spot.  I have a 50/50 mix of these GX 280's that either have the ZIP or have just a regular floppy drive and they're mixed together so I can't just create a 2nd task to take care of these other machines because they're not all the same.

How do I get WinPE to be configured so that it either completely ignores the ZIP drive or changes the enumeration so that the HDD is set to disk 1 instead?

Unfortunately you cannot. Order of disks under Windows often can be diffrent to BIOS disk order seen under DOS. Ghost tries to be consistent in both cases and present same BIOS order under DOS and Windows but not always succeeds. If you would be cloning from disk I'd suggest using OS virtual disk that ghost makes up and then selecting only certain volumes from it to achieve consistency but you cannot clone to "OS virtual disk" - only from. Perhaps you can try cloning under DOS to achieve consistency across all machines?