Ghosting a pc? with no ide bus!!

Lex · 18 Jan 2007 at 09:40

Right my company just bought some new pcs and expects me to ghost them usin our regular ghost cdrom. Apart from when i get to the command prompt it doesnt recognise the cd drive label that i put in e.g. "d:\" it says "invalid drive specification"

I realised the motherboard has no IDE Bus! I think the cd to begin the ghost process is searching for the IDE bus and cannot find it.

Is there any way around this? please help (highly important!)

steve258 · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:37

Can you boot Ghost from a floppy disk??

The way I've done it is to install Ghost in Windows first, then do the live update and create a bootable floppy afterwards.

Lex · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:27

steve258 said:
Can you boot Ghost from a floppy disk??

The way I've done it is to install Ghost in Windows first, then do the live update and create a bootable floppy afterwards.

i cant boot from ghost because the PC doesnt have an IDE BUS which means when it searches for the cd it cant find the drive letter because the cd requires an ide bus.

Snapshot · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:47

Have a look in the BIOS to see if you can switch the SATA controller/drives to Legacy mode. This should make the drives look like IDE to whatever's trying to use them.

noxidjkram@hotm · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:09

Get your company to buy a newer version of ghost (or similar) that supports SATA.

M

Lex · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:12

noxidjkram@hotm said:
Get your company to buy a newer version of ghost (or similar) that supports SATA.

M

i've got norton ghost v10 that should support sata surely!

Lex · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:24

Snapshot said:
Have a look in the BIOS to see if you can switch the SATA controller/drives to Legacy mode. This should make the drives look like IDE to whatever's trying to use them.

is legacy mode well known? I've taken a look anyway but sadly i cant find it anywhere in the bios.