Christer wrote on Jan 8th, 2009 at 6:15pm:Have you tried without switches? I have created Images from SATA to PATA and restored the other way several times without any switches (other than "-split=650" and "-auto" to fit on CD's). I have also cloned disk-to-disk from SATA to PATA without any switches.
Edited: I forgot to mention that I always do the deed booted from Ghost floppies.
Christer
Hello Christer and all on this wonderful board.
Before deciding to post I have browsed the pages of the forum to try and find a solution to my problem.
I have been using NG2003 (build 793) for some time to make images of personal PCs in a small home network. All PCs except one can be imaged to a NAS device (LaCie Big Disk) on which I have defined a network share. The device acts as an NT (v 4.9 server) and offers compatibility with Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP clients.
I start NG2003 from a DOS (win98se formatted floppy) that loads the usual network drivers. So far this is OK evidenced by the PC being pingable. The NAS network share is visible and accessible Read and Write commands OK.
When I start NG2003 from the command line either from a floppy or the network share (mapped drive) where there is a copy of ghost.exe, I see local drives&partitions (sources I want to image) and I can select the mapped drive as destination. After the usual popups the main screen appears but nothing happens after I see "Adding MFT..." after a while I get Error 29089 Error writing image file. A ghosterr file is created only when I use the ghost floppy.
First I suspected the config of the NAS device share but had to exclude it since other PCs can be imaged fine (using same logon creds).
I am now suspect the culprit PC HW config since it differs from others as having 1 SATA drive and 1 PATA drive hooked on a ASRock 939N68PV-GLAN mobo. As often the BIOS settings are numerous and I am relunctant to play with them without guidance.
To try to workaround the problem I have tried the -fni switch (in ghost.ini file) but this produces the same error. I have read the posts of NightOwl, TheShadow and other experts on this forum that testify NG2003 CAN handle SATA+PATA configs.
Do you think -fna or -fnu could make this work ?
Maybe someone could help me changing settings in BIOS (I can supply screenshots of the relevant sections) ?
This has been driving me nuts for quite a while so I'd appreciate the help you can kindly provide.
Regards