Thanks for the information regarding USB 3 on an 1155 board. I may wait to do my upgrade.
I have made some progress with Ghost. I am using version 11.5.1.2266 and I tried version 11.5.1.2113 and got the same result. My work around at this point is to do a clean install of Ghost and create bootable media on USB flash drive using the default settings with WinPE and I select add CD/DVD support.
Next I downloaded the Automated Installation Kit for Windows Vista at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10333 and install it. If you are using Windows XP it will call for the installation of MSXML 6.0 Parser before it will let you install AIK. MSXML 6.0 Parser is included in AIK. Once I got the AIK installed I ran the follow commands from the AIK command prompt which is called Windows PE Tools Command Prompt. You can find this under Programs on the start menu once AIK is installed. I put my drivers in a folder on C:\ in an effort to simply the commands I would have to type and keep what I am doing as close to the examples in the instructions as possible.
1) copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86
This creates fresh WinPE fies as follows:
\winpe_x86
\winpe_x86\ISO
\winpe_x86\mount
2) imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim 1 c:\winpe_x86\mount
This unpacks the contents of WinPE.wim and moves them to the mount folder.
3) peimg /inf=<path> c:\winpe_x86\mount\Windows
I run this command for each device driver that needs to be loaded.
In the case of my USB 3.0 two drivers are required a controller and hub driver.
4) Next I copy the ghost32.exe file to the Windows\System32 file which you will find under Windows in the mount folder which is in the winpe_x86 folder.
5) Locate the startnet.cmd file in the system32 file which is under Windows in the mount folder which is in the winpe_x86 folder. Once you locate the startnet.cmd file right click on it and open it with notepad and delete wpeinit and replace it with ghost32.
6) peimg /prep c:\winpe_x86\mount\Windows
This reduces the image size.
7) imagex /unmount c:\winpe_x86\mount /commit
This repackages the changes made in the mount folder to WinPE.wim.
8) copy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim
This updates the boot.win file in the sources folder.
9) Replace the boot.win file in sources folder on the flash drive that contains the boot package created by ghost with the boot.win file in the sources folder in the WinPE_x86 folder.
When you boot from the flash drive it will take WinPE a minute or two to load but the second the command prompt loads Ghost Boot Wizard loads. There is no delay like with the boot package ghost creates. I am able to plug and unplug items in the USB 3.0 ports and as long as I go back to the main menu in the Boot Wizard then return to the screens where the drives are displayed I am able to see any devices that are plugged in the USB 3.0 ports.
I am able to backup 10.6 GBs in less than 3 minutes doing drive to drive or drive to image to a Patriot USB 3.0 flash drive that is rated at 50 MB/s write and 180 MB/s read. This Rage XT is not their top of the line flash drive the have bigger and faster.. If I select disk to image the image size is a little over 5 GBs.
The scope limitation in this method of backup is you cannot boot from the image on the USB 3.0 flash drive because USB 3.0 cannot be seen or available to boot in the BIOS of most motherboards made today with USB 3.0 controllers on them. In order to recover from the image on the USB 3.0 flash drive you have to boot from another Ghost boot package and select the image on the USB 3.0 flash drive to recover from.
Sincerely,
Mark