Okay, I have asked this question to Norton Website with no results. I have a SATA Harddrive 250gigs not Partitioned (wanted it partitioned but friend that set it up did not, another story)I have Norton's Goback 4.0 and would like to install it on this drive but have heard horror stories that since it is a SATA drive that bad things will happen. Is this true? I want to use goback because on my old system it has saved me many times instead of Windows Restore. I have tried Norton Ghost and also Acronis True Image but have found these to be kinda hard to understand. I would like something to work outside of Windows like Goback does, simple and to the point. What's the deal with Goback and SATA drives.

"Configurations which are not (GoBack) supported

* Norton GoBack is not supported on drives compressed with a disk-level compression utility, such as DriveSpace and DoubleSpace. However, GoBack is fully compatible with file-level compression, such as that provided by PKZIP, WinZip, and ARJ.

* Norton GoBack does not support systems with more than 4 primary partitions.

* Norton GoBack does not protect removable media, such as floppy disks, Zip disks, and so forth.

* Norton GoBack is not supported with LILO or dual-boot Linux/Windows partitions.

* Drives not recognized during the initial BIOS hardware identification phase of the boot process or that require special device drivers.

* Computers running in MS-DOS Compatibility mode.

* Drive systems using striping (RAID), dynamic disks, simple volumes, mirrored volumes, or spanned volumes.

* Norton GoBack does not support installation on disk drives one terabyte or larger."

Norton GoBack 4.0 system requirements.

GoBack and RAID.

Likely Warning with a RAID system.

Have been a GoBack user since it was originally produced by Adaptec in 2000 (v2.2). Then it was sold to Roxio and then Symantec Norton. I think Symantec bought it to kill the product and protect their own bloatware. Norton's support of GoBack is virtually non-existent and they have never been able to answer any of my queries about GoBack. But to answer your question about GoBack and SATA drives:

I have NO problems with GoBack v 4.02.309 on the following drives:
WD Raptor 36gig, 74 or 150 gig models in single mode.
2 x WD Raptor 150 gig's in RAID 1 mode.
Samsung 200 and 250 gig SATA 2 drives in single mode.
WD SATA 1 120 gig, 200 gig models

I ahve never had problems with GoBack and SATA drives and I think tha tif your BIOS detects your SATA properly, you will be OK. One difference though is that all my SATA drives are connected to INTEL based mobo's. I have not used ATA on any of my Athlons based machines (all PATA). My experience therefor does not cover SATA on nForce or any other Athlon mobo with SATA.

If you have GoBack on you rexisting HDD installed and then add the new 250 gig SATA and power up, you will need to partition it in Disk Management and format it. GoBack will NOT be monitoring this drive if you do not uninstall and re-install GoBack. GoBack only picks up drives to monitor while it is being installed. I use this sometims on purpose when I want a fast drive NOT to be monitored by GoBack like when I use a disk for XP's swap file/temp files/ or video scratch disk in Adobe Premier. Data on that disk is always temporary and need not be recovered. GoBack only slows things down and hogs space on such a drive. Therefor, I do not install that drive until after the GoBack install and update has been done on the primary drive (and all other drives that I want GoBack to monitor).