connogue

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Well, you at least need to allow for CD/DVD support if you want access to the data portion of the optical boot disc.

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Sounds like you are trapped in Ghost's *virtual partition* which it creates if you are using the Windows interface to run Ghost.  Here are some resources to correct the problem:

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 Management Utility 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!

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If your system is not compatible with Ghost's use of the *virtual partition*, you can probably use the DOS *ghost.exe* from a boot floppy disk or optical disc which would avoid the *virtual partition*!

Are your HDD's SATA?!

Some additional information. When trying to boot from Ghost 2003, my options are:
1. Continue with no drivers
2. Load USB 1.1 drivers
3. Load USB 2.0 drivers
4. Load Firewire drivers
5. Load ZIP/JAZ drivers

Trying any of these options ends with:
No drives found, aborting installation.

>Is the optical drive SATA also?  If so, then you need a newer DOS driver for SATA optical
>drives:  GCDROM for DOS.

I'm not sure will include this file on a bootable CDROM

>You may have to make a temporary change in the BIOS regarding SATA HDD access >settings:  Re: Bootable cd without floppy.  Does your BIOS have a SATA setting for >*compatibility* mode or *native* mode, or *emulate IDE* mode?

Only 2 options provided in BIOS - boot from HD or boot from CD-ROM

>Does your Ghost 2003 installation disc have this program:  X:\Support\ghreboot.exe?

Yes it does.

Hope this helps.

With a  LOT of help from reading posts in this forum and Computing.net and as a way of saying thanks here's my two cents and an offer:

I JUST finished creating a Ghost (8.3) Boot Disk for use with a Dell Vostro 200, that has SATA Optical and hard drives.  The disk boots directly into Ghost.exe once you select the type of media you loaded from.  From that point, one can use ghost to either create an image written directly to the optical drive (either CDR or DVDR) or restore images from either CD or DVD.  I was ONLY able to do this after adding gcdrom.sys to the mix.  Oakcdrom.sys does not work with SATA optical drives.

I have no problems at all making this disk available to this board but I don't have an FTP site or a place to make say an ISO if the Disk available.  

If someone can give me a place to put the ISO, I would be happy to do so.  That is of course if it is legal to do so.  I could make a modified copy that doesn't actually contain the Ghost executable.  That way legal owners of ghost could extract the files, add the Ghost executable, and use something like Nero, or EZ-CD Creator to write a bootable CD/DVD.

I will take the lead of a moderator here regarding my offer to share my work on a Ghost Boot CD

Regardless of if I am able to provide an ISO of my disk, I can't emphasize enough how important getting gcdrom.sys is to making it possible to boot from an SATA Optical drive.

DWilliamsamh

I have sent you a PM.  Please reply so I can send you a link to the ISO.

Doug

I am having the same problem that dwilliamsmh fixed. I understand you have to add the sata dos drivers but where and how do I rference them so that they will load during boot? If I can get that ISO I will be all set but would still like to know which file references the new driver and how it should be done.

Thanks in advance