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Well, sounds like you're *trapped* in the *virtual partition* that Ghost 2003 uses to work from Windows--seems to happen when there is some incompatibility between Ghost's process of creating the *virtual partition* environment and the hardware.

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This suggests that there is a problem with Ghost's ability to work with the SATA HDD's--but, it sounds like the system booted to DOS successfully, and was loading Ghost successfully--so maybe a change in BIOS setting and/or a switch to load Ghost will solve that problem:

Re: Bootable cd without floppy

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What didn't *work*?  

*ghostreboot* is an *automated* program to delete the *virtual partition* and set active the original boot partition with your OS for booting.

*Gdisk* is Symantec's command line partitioning tool--you have to manually change your HDD's structure by entering command lines for each step you want to change.

Are you able to boot to DOS and access the SATA HDD's using DOS commands?

Resources regarding *virtual partition*:  

How to use GhReboot

Cannot start Windows after starting a Ghost 2003 task from Windows

How to restart the computer into Windows if a problem is encountered after running Ghost 2003

If the *automated GhReboot* does not work, check this thread on how to use the Symantec Ghost DOS command line partitioning program, *gdisk*, as to how to manually change the active partition back to your original partition:

Ghost 2003 -operating system not found

Other partitioning tools (such as PartitionMagic, or this free tool MBRWizard - The MBR utility you've been looking for!) that can change partitions from active to inactive, and can hide and unhide partitions--as well as delete partitions from the Master Partition Table--can also be used to manually reset the correct active OS partition for booting!

Symantec FAQ's:  

Switches: GDisk

Switches: GDisk and GDisk32 for Norton Ghost 2003

Introduction to GDisk

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Many folks can avoid the problem of the *virtual partition* by booting to DOS *manually* rather than using the Windows Ghost interface--by booting to DOS directly, Ghost does not use the *virtual partition*!

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Depends on what *features* you want, and what works or does not work for you!

The current retail versions of Ghost are no longer based on the *original* DOS Ghost, but rather on the Windows based *drive image* program acquired by Symantec.  

The corporate version of Ghost--Ghost Solution Suite--is still based on the DOS Ghost program--has greater *command line switches* capabilities for controlling how the program behaves--but requires a 5 license minimum--so more expensive than the single retail license.