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Ghost 8.3 and SATA drives...
Name: Ewen Date: September 9, 2006 at 20:16:48 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: PIII/786 Product: Home Build
Comment:
The techie in our local PC shoppe tells me that when I update my PC shortly it will have SATA drives and Norton Ghost 8.3 (the best) will not work with them. Is this true?
Name: ham30 Date: September 9, 2006 at 20:43:08 Pacific
Reply:
I would think that's 'probably' true, I doubt if even version 9 supports SATA. But the documentation should tell you.
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Response Number 2
Name: mattie Date: September 9, 2006 at 23:03:32 Pacific
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I've never had a problem ghosting to or from SATA drives.
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Response Number 3
Name: Ewen Date: September 10, 2006 at 02:11:52 Pacific
Reply:
I guess I'll just have to wait and see... at least your reply is encouraing mattie!
Thanks to all, regards.
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Response Number 4
Name: jefro Date: September 10, 2006 at 12:43:35 Pacific
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Depends on what exactly you are talking about. I make a ubcd4win with the correct drivers to run any image software.
Your current image will not work with the new drives as such. It will require making a new image or knowing how to correct the problems.
Ghost 10 may be better as you have a window PE to boot to almost any hardware supported.
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Response Number 5
Name: philwg Date: September 11, 2006 at 17:12:43 Pacific
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I use Norton Ghost 2003 which is Version 8 I believe and it works fine with all Sata setups that I have encountered. Including ghosting sata raid arrays. The only thing to watch out for is ghosting an OS from an IDE drive to SATA drive - you may need to make sure that the necessary drivers for the SATA controller are installed first.
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Name: Ewen
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