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  • 1.  Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 01, 2007 12:04 PM
    I am trying to clone several Dell Optiplex machines. They have no floppy, USB mouse, and keyboard, SATA optical drives and SATA hard drives. I can't seem to get a bootable CD that will allow me to boot! It keeps failing. Please help.
     


  • 2.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 01, 2007 05:56 PM
    Hello Christopher,

    Are these Optiplex 745's by any chance? You shouldn't need any special setup for the SATA harddrives -- but what  make and model optical drive do you have installed in these systems?



  • 3.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 01, 2007 10:21 PM
    Im trying to sysprep for cloning the computer. M understanding is that I can create a bootdisk that loads Ghost, then i can image this Sata harddrive to an external USB harddrive. The problem is, that the CD will  not boot to ghost. Im getting boot failure errors. This is a Dell Optiplex 740. I do not know exactly what make and model DVD rom drive this is.
     
    How can i create a bootdisk that will boot to ghost with this SATA DVD drive? That will allow me to make an image of this hardrive that is syspreped?
     
     


  • 4.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 03, 2007 08:14 PM
    You know, I'm having the same issue, and yes, it is an Optiplex 745 with the SATA drives. My problem started with trying to boot with a Ghost bootable CD (don't remember the error text), but now I'm trying to use the Ghost Console, and the machine will not boot to the virtual partition. The error I am getting is "Failed to reboot client to recovery partition".
    The NIC is a Broadcom NetExtreme 57, and it appears the problem is occuring after the startup file is processing the netbind commands, but I really can't tell because it flashes by so fast, then just reboots the computer. Looks  like about  12-14 lines of commands are being processed.
    The machine has Vista Ultima loaded, but I'm not sure if the problem is related to that.
    The other thing to note is that the first DVD drive was a Philips DVD-Rom (no model no.) and the drive I currently have installed is a Toshiba DVD Writer TS-H653.

    One thing that would help would be if I could find the actual startup file that is being processed. Then I could see where the failure is occurring. But, any ideas where I could start troubleshooting this at?

    cyndee


  • 5.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 05, 2007 01:17 AM
    Hi,
     
    There are two different problems here.
     
    For Cindee, it is probably the default BC57 driver is not been compatible with the BC network card in 745. There was a similar issue discussed in
    Could you try the same process and see if it is working?
     
    Christopher's problem seems to be a booting issue from CD. How did you create the boot CD? Did you create an iso from Ghost Boot Wizard and burnet to a CD?
     
    Krish


  • 6.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 12, 2007 03:33 PM
    I have the same problem you are having.
     
    I have a Dell GX745 with a SATA DVD/CD drive.  I want to make a boot disk that gives the DVD/CD drive a drive letter which means you need DOS drivers that work.  Ghost ver 8.2 doesn't have them.  Any ideas other then updating my version of ghost which I can't control?
     
     


  • 7.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 13, 2007 12:44 PM
    Christopher -  Change the SATA Operation in the bios from Normal to Legacy.   This will allow you to boot from the older CDROM drivers in DOS and assign a drive letter.


  • 8.  RE: Ghost Boot Disk with Sata Drivers?`

    Posted Apr 13, 2007 01:29 PM
    That solved my problem, Thanks Kif.