Hi,

I am a new member of the forum, but have used some guides and liked them very much - thank you for previous help!

I am not sure if I am posting in the right forum.

I have Ghost 2003 and FDISK.

I have a

Seagate 320GB Serial ATA hard drive

and

Samsung SH-S182D DVD-RAM - this has the SB06 firmware

attached to a

Foxconn ?975X7AB-8EKRS2H? mother board (the question marks around the serial number indicate that a) my computer is currently hosed, and b) I am guessing the mother board number - I reckon there's a 70% chance of it being right).

What I want to know is this.

1) Is Fdisk compatible with SATA drives?

2) Will Ghost write to my DVD-RAM drive automatically or do I need to change some of the settings? I want it to write to DVD-R media.

Many thanks in advance

Will

William wrote on Apr 5^th, 2008 at 4:35pm:

Good question. I don't see why not, but would like to see someone try. You could always use the partitioning utility which is found in Windows CD.

William wrote on Apr 6^th, 2008 at 1:51pm:

That's easy. Pesky has a list of external drives he's verified compatibility with. I'd ask his input:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=viewprofile;username=072E1D1227...

And NightOwl has a better-driver page, should you have problems.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1095438251

Of course, I would suggest leaving the image on the external. Moreover, I would even suggest Ghost 14 or 12 .. to be used with external drive. That's what I use. And can report success both creating and restoring images (now called Recovery Points).

Restoring directly from optical storage *may* work, but this is something you will have to test yourself .. with your own particular system configuration. And of course I'd be interested to hear what you find.

William,
Forget the RAM disks.....use only DVD-R or DVD+R, whichever works for you.  I find the DVD+R works best for me using Ghost 2003 or Ghost 8.3.
(I have set up both, on bootable media)

FDISK?  I regularly use it from a Windows ME Boot disk to set up all my HD's, including SATA and SATA2 drives.  NO PROBLEM!!!!
I just did a new SATA2, 160 gig drive, yesterday.
The FDISK from Windows ME is better than the FSISK from 98 or 98/SE for partitioning large HD's.

Doing that, you'll be setting up the drive for FAT-32,  the only format I use on any of my HD's except for the one that has Vista Ultimate on it.  Vista will refuse to load on a FAT-32 hard drive.
XP however doesn't care and will run very well indeed on a FAT-32 formatted drive.

My standard setup for a new hard drive, for many years now, has been to use FDISK to create two partitions.... one for the OS and one for Storage.  I format them both with DOS to verify the integrity of the drive and prepare it for use.

I believe that XP when installing will ask you if you want to keep the current format......I always say "Yes" and the setup continues. 
No problemo!

Good Luck (I hope I've answered your questions)
The Shadow