goliath4 wrote on Aug 26^th, 2008 at 5:51pm:

Yes, it does, as you'd naturally expect. That's been the case since we released GSS 2.0 in December 2006, in fact. The official forum for the GSS product line is here, by the way.

All four of the included builds of the core Ghost cloning engine in GSS2.5 (DOS, Windows x86, Windows x64, and Linux x86) are built from the same core source code and thus have almost identical capabilities The small differences between them largely relate to device drivers and device support and things of that nature, since in non-DOS platforms those are things the underlying operating system reserves for itself and prevents applications doing anything additional about.

goliath4 wrote on Aug 26^th, 2008 at 5:51pm:

No. As of GSS2.0, rather than blanking out the disk signature on restoration (which is what was done by default in previous editions, for the benefit of Windows 2000 and Windows XP), in GSS2.0 and above Ghost when restoring Vista generates a new, random non-blank disk signature when doing disk restores and automatically mounts and adjusts the BCD database with that replacement signature to ensure that the system boots correctly.

This is, as you'd expect, done regardless of the host OS you use to restore with; all versions of genuine Ghost have the code to do this.

goliath4 wrote on Aug 26^th, 2008 at 8:49pm:

For DOS that remains entirely up to your hardware, as always.

There has never been any fundamental SATA incompatibility issue with older versions of Ghost - only machines which have not been designed to comply with the relevant industry specifications ever have (or still do) need such switches, and although we always work on improving compatibility it's beyond our resources to try and write DOS drivers for every single variation of broken BIOSes and faulty hardware that exists in the world.

Depending on the nature of the specific design fault in your specific hardware that caused you to need to employ such a switch, it may or may not be the case that we've found a more general workaround for that since. Perhaps, perhaps not - you'll just have to test the later versions with your specific hardware to know whether that is the case.

However, since GSS 2.5 includes the ability to build Windows PE and Linux boot environments (as well as the traditional PC-DOS CD and USB memory sticks) you also have that option; those operating systems have specific manufacturer drivers for a lot of hardware, and since Ghost does the same job on all of them, those can help too, and the Ghost Boot Wizard in Windows PE has a system for adding new drivers to the presupplied Windows PE image.

I ran Ghost32.exe from the desktop in Vista and the Ghost window opened up on my desktop and the program ran as expected.
The ghost Disk to Disk copy (clone) went off without a hitch and the TO drive booted up the system after the process was concluded.

Running this version of ghost is exactly like running Ghost 2003.
All the screens and menus were the same.
There were NO problems and NO confusion.
All in all it was a "Piece of Cake" !!!

Cheers Mates!
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