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Title: Bootable Ghost Restore DVD using SATA Optical Drive
Post by mikemelancholic on Jan 2^nd, 2009 at 3:21pm

I'm trying to make a bootable Ghost restore disc for a system that only has a SATA DVD-ROM. I've been successfully making restore DVDs for a couple years, but this is the first time I've tried making one for a system that has a SATA optical drive. When this disc boots, DETECTCD of course can't find the DVD drive. Is there any way to get this to work?

Title: Re: Bootable Ghost Restore DVD using SATA Optical Drive
Post by mikemelancholic on Jan 5^th, 2009 at 7:15am

Is this an impossible task?

Title: Re: Bootable Ghost Restore DVD using SATA Optical Drive
Post by TheShadow on Jan 6^th, 2009 at 8:32am

Hi Mike,

In many bios's there is a setting to make SATA devices look like IDE devices.
Do you have such a setting and is it set to IDE emulation?

The motherboard should be able to treat a SATA CD drive just like it would an IDE CD drive, as far as booting the system.

I would think Ghost would do likewise.

Cheers mate!
Shadow 8-)