Hi again, all. I changed my DVD burner jumper to Master and my removable HDD to Slave. Windows then said the HDD was not formatted, so I obliged. I also reset the drive letters. Windows recognises the HDD and I have done a MS backup to it, but Ghost doesn't. I've tried going in to Ghost Interactive mode, but when the blue Ghost screen comes up I just get the little hour glass until I do a reset. There is an option to assign a HDD in Ghost after you've specified the file destination, but I can't get past that point, because of the "Unrecognised Drive" error message.

Ted, If you're using a FAT32 bootup disk with ghost you can't see a drive that's been formatted with NTFS. WinXP can be isntalled with either FAT table but most commonly it's NTFS. Go to Bootdisk.com and make an NTFS bootup disk and then you will be able to see NTFS disks. good luck, wired

Hello,wiredsj. Thank you for your reply. Actually, everything was working perfectly until I changed the Master/Slave jumper settings. Ted.

Ted, Just curious as to why you have your DVD as the Master? Your OS should be on your primary master. You'd be better off having them both set to master on seperate cables with the HD as your primary. You get quicker read/write speeds on seperate cables than you do on a single cable. If you only have the one cable switch them back until you pick up another one. good luck, wiredsj

Hi, wiredsj. The HDD with my OS on is set to Primary Master and my DVD Rom is on Primary Slave. I have my DVD burner set to Secondary Master and my Removable HDD set as slave. Ted.

Ted, Well that cabling should work so i'm afraid i'm stumped on this one. Maybe switch them back the way they were to do your Ghost and then put them how you like. Or you may have better results switching the secondary drives as some software have problems seeing too many removable drives in between fixed drives, in other words it sees your primary HDD as "C" and then sees two DVD's on "D" and "E" and doesn't look to "D" for another HDD. By switching the slaves your Removable HDD would switch to "D" (depending on any partitioning on your primary HDD). To get the optimum cabling you obviously have your OS as the Primary Master, then think about which drives interact with each other most common and keep them on opposite cables. Do you use your DVD burner more to copy files from your Primary HDD, to copy other DVD's off your DVD player, or to copy from your removable HDD? Whatever your answer is should be on the opposite cable as your DVD burner. I just thought of another thing you could try. <Right Click> on "My Computer" and <click> "Manage/Disk Management" and change your Removable HDD to "D" and see if it picks it up. good luck, wiredsj

HI, wiredsj Thank you for all that. Will continue to experiment. Ted.