I hope someone can help me with this.
I need to create a DVD that boots to ghost so that I can image some machines. The units have SATA DVD drives and SATA hard drives. There are no ide controllers on board. I created a floppy disk with the DVD drivers (gcdrom.sys) on it, and created a bootable DVD with Roxio. I added ghost (8.3) and the image to the DVD. The DVD boots fine, and detects the DVD drive. It then runs the ghost command line from the autoexec
(Z:\ghost.exe -clone,mode=restore,src=Z:\image.gho,dst -sure). The computer just hangs in ghost, and nothing happens.
I tried to play with the switches, and when I added "-noide" or "-fni", I would get a the following error:
"Question 1801: Bad blocks encountered on read - continue anyway?"
After choosing yes, I get:
"Question 1815: Ignore subsequent bad blocks?"
After choosing yes, ghost loads up and starts imaging. The problem is it estimates 7 hours for the image to finish. I have not actually waited around to see if it would be successfully imaged though.
I also went into the BIOS of the machine and changed the SATA operation to legacy mode. I had to use the old DVD drivers (oakcdrom.sys), but after loading, the same error occurs.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? I researched the errors, and they all point to a hard drive failure. I have tried multiple hard drives, and they all return the same errors. The drives are new and have no partitions. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks