ronoprpa,
Are you referring to SATA CD/DVD-ROM drives or hard disk?  I'm not aware of any issues with performing FSR against SATA hard disks.  In some cases you may need to set the BIOS options concerning drive emulation to ATA vs AHCI (this is an option on many Dell models).  SATA CD-ROM drives are another story...

We don't use FSR much here anymore; typically what we do is lay a new build on the machine using our standard process, reinstall RS and "reconnect" to the previous account, then do a Rollback.  This seems to run much faster than a traditional FSR as well.

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Hey Kyle, No that is not what I am looking for. We have some of the new Dell E6500's that contain SATA Cd drives and no BOIS option to emulate a legacy drive. In essance, an FSR is useless. A workaround that I have found it to install a base Windows and the Recovery Client and do a rollback. It's a time consuming and cumbersome task.

Hi,

We seem to have the same issue even with Altiris Recovery Solution 7.1...We've tried setting the bios to be IDE rather than SATA but this hasnt helped.

Anyone else had this issue? Or maybe has anyone else been able to recover from CD on any failry new model laptops successfully?

If our Director is out of the country and lets say his laptop HD dies, he will have the necessary discs with him to Recovery once he get the HD replaced. So that part needs to work.
He will not be in a position to re-install windows first.
Secondly, we only have Recovery Solution, and not Deployment Solution, so we need to be able to recover from CD :-(

Sorry to say it guys, but I don't expect this will be fixed.  As you know RS is EOL, and I suspect the engineering effort required to build native SATA support would be fairly substantial (though, we still  have some time left of Engineering support!  Does FSR in RS 7 still use DOS?  Haven't jumped into SMP7 much at all yet, much less RS.   You can always post an Idea here on Connect requesting this enhancement. 

We gave up on using FSR a while ago except in the most urgent cases, and use the Rollback method Ron refers to.   In the end it is faster (since you don't have the long process of building the FSR image) and you come closer to a "clean" Windows install.

You can use a USB stick as FSR media, that should work without a problem.

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schnyders,

I did a bit of searching around and found this page which has some info on making bootable USB sticks; do you have a specific process and/or tool you use to "burn" ISOs to a USB stick?

Guess I should go back and look at the Ref guides; they do actually update them sometimes!  Thanks for the link/reminder.