I have built a computer (for a friend) based on the Gigabyte GA-K8NX U-SLI motherboard and Hitachi 7K250 SATA hard disks. Ghost 2003 has no problems at all. Take note that I always run Ghost booted from the Ghost Boot Disks, never initiated from within Windows.

Christer

Maybe I remember the model designation wrong but it was either

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID...

or

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID...

Hi Doc and welcome ... ... !

I have created two sets of Ghost Boot Disks, one running MS-DOS and the other running PC-DOS. I have always used MS-DOS. I have no Ghost.ini, only Autoexec.bat which looks like this:

Code:

@echo off
SET TZ=GHO-01:00
LH \MSCDEX.EXE /D:cd1 /D:cd2 /D:cd3
echo Loading...
cls

if %config% == FROMFLPY goto FLPYBOOT
if %config% == FROMCD goto CDBOOT

goto FAILED

:FLPYBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
pause
if exist a:\ghost\ghost.exe goto GHOSTFND
goto FLPYBOOT

:CDBOOT
echo Insert Ghost boot disk 2 (containing Ghost.exe)
pause
if not exist b:\ghost\ghost.exe goto CDBOOT
b:
goto GHOSTFND

:GHOSTFND
cd \ghost
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE -split=650 -auto
goto END

:FAILED
echo Unknown boot menu selection
goto END

:END 

As you can see, I have chosen to split and auto-name the spans enabling burning to CDs. That's the only user intervention when creating the GBDs from Ghost 2003 running under Windows XP Pro.

I don't have any means (that I know of) to create a disk image of a floppy but if you tell me how ... ... and it's free!

Christer

Try creating a Win98SE start disk and when the computer is started, swap in the floppy with Ghost.exe. At the A:>\ command prompt type in: cd Ghost > enter, type in: Ghost.exe > enter

See how it runs and tell us.

Christer

Doc,
only PC-DOS is native to Ghost. If the user wants to run it under MS-DOS, he/she has to provide the MS-DOS files through a Win9X start disk.

My first Ghost version, when I was on WinME was 2002. I provided the MS-DOS files to Ghost through the WinME start disk.

When I migrated to WinXP, I also migrated to Ghost 2003. I tried to provide the MS-DOS files using the same WinME start disk but it was not accepted. The message was that "it MUST be Win98 or Win95 files" or words to that meaning. I found a computer running Win98SE, created a start disk, used it and everything has been well ever since.

My conclusion is that Ghost 2003 is not compatible with WinME boot files which are quite different from Win98/95 boot files.

Christer

I first ran into Ghost, from "Ghostsoft, Inc." in about 1996.  We used it in the shop I worked in then to clone HD's for our customers.  That was in '96 and I was amazed at how ahead of the times it seemed to be.  Written by Aliens, I guess.  lol

A little more recently, my first ver of Ghost was Ghost 2002 which I got on a mobo driver disk as a freebee.  It made a boot disk for me with some weird DOS on it.  A year or so later, I got Ghost 2003 on another mobo driver disk.  Again the Ghost program in Windows made me a boot floppy.
 
Since then, I've changed to windows 98 DOS and then to Windows ME DOS.  In all this time I've never had Ghost refuse to run on any PC, even with Windows XP on it.  Ghost has just worked Everywhere that I've tried to use it.  That is, until recently, when I tried to make a Ghost backup of a HD in a computer I'd just rebuilt with a new AMD socket 939 mobo.  Since then, I've tried to run Ghost 2003 on several different brands of PC's all with the 939 mobo and Ghost 2003 has NOT worked properly on any of them.
Ghost 2003 Does work flawlessly from a Windows ME boot disk, on every other mobo I've tried it on.
That's not the problem here.

It was explained to me about the recent changes to the IDE controller on the new 939 mobo's, but, I just can't remember what that explanation was.

There's probably NO way to make Ghost 2003 ever work with those boards, but if there is, I'd sure like to find it.  God, I do love that program.  It's without a doubt the most valuable utility I have in my Arsenal of programs.

On my own SATA HD, Ghost backs up my entire C: drive to my storage drive in just five minutes,,,,doing an immediate restore, performs the function of a fabulous DEFRAG, on my FAT-32 HD.
Here's my HD after the restore.


Thanks for all your help,
Doc  8)

At the risk of becoming redundant, I'll repeat my previous statement.

Ghost 2003, run from a DOS boot disk has no problem doing a backup and/or restore on any PC running any version of XP, except on the newer 939 motherboards.  I've never had any problem on any other mobo but that one.

Personally, all I need is to either find a fix for that problem, or fine another (free) backup program that will work as well as Ghost 2003.

Today, I've totally revamped my own Ghost 2003 boot disk, with a newer version of Ghost 2003 and some added features.  One day this week I'll get a chance to test it out on an AMD 939 mobo.

Wish me luck!

Doc 8)