I have been using Ghost 2003 for a couple of years making regular backups. I recently added a third sata hard drive and a new monitor so I decided to make a DVD back up, something that I only do about every 6 months. I have one of these HDD just for ghost images and nti backup files of my programs and other files. I only use ghost 2003 to image my system partition c: . Ghost starts up it looks normal, it gives me the 1.2. options and I choose 1 or I let the time roll and it defaults to 1. run ghost. At that point the applicatin seems to hang up. Nothing happens for several minutes, I never get the ghost applicatin screen. I tried to start up from my Ghost Dos Disc and that does work, the ghost screen comes up and I can verify an image and then quit the disc and boot into winXP. I tried 3 different times to do my Ghost job and after the initial choice screen and 1. is chosen I get nuttin' , nada, zero. Does anyone know what has happened? Do I need to uninstall and reinstall Ghost? I have not tried that. Could it have something to do with my drive letters getting up into n: and then I also have one partition labeled v:?? I know it sounds excessive but I store video files. I am really stumped and I just can't figure this one out. Any help is appreciated.

YES, my motherboard has a Via SATA controller and a Promise SATA controller on board. For some reason when I went to a 2 HDD setup I could not get my second Via port to work properly so I just used the Primary Promise Port at that time. For this new 3rd drive I use the Secondary Promise Port, I was never able to get my 4th port (the sec. Via Controller port) to work right, I don't plan to use it. The drives are all of the same type, same brand Maxtor 200 GB.

The first time that Ghost ran it recognized that there was a new drive installed, it asked if I wanted to use it with Ghost and warned me that the app was only for "personal" use. I simply selected YES and the message/warning was gone.

When the problem occurred I was kind of stuck in the blinking cursor mode, even when I ctrl/alt/delete, dos would restart and the ghost event would begin but get stuck, I was in the virtual partition. At that point I could not get back out to where I could choose 2 and abort the attempted back up. So rather than just crash my machine I crtl/alt/delete inserted my DOS Boot disc (which I made with your help ~ your tutorial is simply the bomb) and was able to get into the ghost setup from the CD rather than the virtual partition. From there ghost fully loaded and I went in a verified an image that was on my hard drive, It worked fine and then I was able to gracefully get out of that and boot into windows.
Actually that image that I verified is one that I had moved to the new hard drive. I don’t like moving or defragging the ghost images and that is why I wanted to create new images as soon as possible.

I'll can try disconnecting the new drive, but I am at work now. HEY IN WRITING THIS I JUST REMEMBERED THAT WHEN I PUT THE 3RD DRIVE IN I SWAPPED POSITIONS WITH THE EXISTING (2ND) DRIVE. MY ORIGINAL BOOT DISK IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN DISK 0, BUT THE BRAND NEW (3RD) DRIVE BECAME DISK 1, AND MY EXISTING 2ND DRIVE BECAME DISK 2. MAYBE GHOST IS CONFUSED BECAUSE I SWAPPED THE DRIVES. I did this simply because the SATA cable fit better that way; I didn't think it would affect anything.

What I was thinking was perhaps if I re-install Ghost; it will re-asses my computer setup and work correctly. I plan to make all new backups that is no problem; my system is working well right now, of course except for this issue.

I read the log and it did not seem to give a clue, simply said that the backup failed, but I'll read it again and copy it here if you'd like. I can also get the case open if necessary once I get home from work this evening.

Thanks for getting back to me.

WOW!
My eyes are open! Can you beat that Symantec...DOGS. I think what I will do is pop the case and swap the drives on the Promise controller even if it means re-mounting the drives. I just have a gut feeling you know. If that does not work then well... Plan B. I'll get back to you with results. This forum (and I am registered in many) is by far the very best I've seen, no kiddin.
Thanks again, newfilter

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Thanks for the kind words.

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Interesting, but I don't know what you mean. Ghosttray.exe isn't necessary and I've disabled mine in msconfig. I've seen reports of it causing problems so why don't you try disabling it and see if that helps.

I've learnt a new term. Thanks.