I also use ghost -fni
Disables direct IDE access support for IDE hard disk operations. Which seems to work great for IDE to sata or sata to sata ghosting.
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I also use ghost -fni
Disables direct IDE access support for IDE hard disk operations. Which seems to work great for IDE to sata or sata to sata ghosting.
Just to confirm the easiest solution on thie thread , by Brandon. I have a ATA and SATA drives on my Dell SC400 with winXP OS. On an attempt to copy the C drive to a new drive, I too got into the constant boot to PC dos and unable to recover by selecting the return to windows option or any of the tools. Ghdisk also hangs.
Anyway, disconnecting the SATA drive, and rebooting caused it to proceed. In my case I didn't want to take chances with my data today, so I was simply happy when the option to Cancel and return to Windows let it complete and return me to the beautiful Loading Windows XP screen.
BTW, at work they have the latest version of Ghost, I think its 11 or so, that works well even with Win 7 / Win Server 2008 R2. Its time to dump Ghost 2003.
"On my computer, Ghost 2003 have problem with the IDE controller (SATA drives).
If your computer freezes before Ghost can completly load up then try this:
To Run Ghost.exe - Boot up to DOS (not Windows) and type "Ghost.exe /noide" in Ghost directory. (/noide disable the ide controller)"
This command isn't working for me. I put it Ghost.exe/ noide (/noide disable the ide controller)
I tried a few different variations of that. How are you actually typing this?
Thanks.
The space would go before the slash, not after:
ghost.exe /noide
You also apparently need to be in the Ghost directory before typing that command. So try:
cd \ghost