Recently I have noticed that it takes forever for my Norton 2003 Boot disk to load, and when it does it doesn't always recognize my IDE channel, which my backupdrive is on. I tried a suggestion that someone stated, basically Turning on DEP(Data Execution Prevention) for all programs.  Now the boot disk loads fast and it recognizes my E: drive, which I back up to(On my single IDE channel with my DVD-RW drive). Any ideas why it does this?

And why all of a sudden do I have to switch it? Worked fine before for 3+years?  Maybe a Windows Update?

Well swapped out my IDE cable and that seems to have done the trick, weird eh?
EDIT: Well that didn't do it so I swapped out the molex plug from my power supply that goes to the back of the drive for the one powering my fan, seems to be a PSU issue.

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Have you added new hardware recently--external USB HDD, flash thumb USB drive, etc.?  Often, a slow loading of Ghost 2003 in DOS means the program is *thinking* (actually--timing-out delays) about a mass storage device that isn't being easily recognized by the program.

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So, that solved the problem!  Do you have other PSU issues when Windows is up and running?  Funny that it would only effect a boot-up to DOS!