I'm sure there's an easy fix for this (at least I'm hoping there is) but it eludes me at present. My drive 0 is a 120GB WD SATA, upon which resides XP Pro. I installed 2 extra IDE drives which I wanted to do a clone between (using Ghost 2003 Windows GUI). The machine rebooted, started PC-DOS and the operation failed. I now know this is a Ghost problem that is fixed by a recent update (SATA and IDE issues), however my system will not boot into Windows, it continues to boot into PC-DOS and fail. Tried the repair console but, although it finds the c:\windows install and logs in it will not FIXBOOT as it says the drive is not a system drive or is inaccesible. Any and all help truly appreciated. Writing, God's way of showing how sloppy your thinking is.

Check your Master/Slave plugging. Or better yet disconnect the added drives for a test.

The only thing currently plugged in is my single SATA drive, it's configured Master and all IDE drives are unplugged. A :dir on C:/ shows all folders and files present. I've cleared all calls to anything ghost related from autoexec and config.sys (they're now empty), but still trys to start PC-DOS. There must be another boot file that is telling it to boot PC-DOS, but I can't trace it... unless it's modified boot.ini? Writing, God's way of showing how sloppy your thinking is.

I think that norton does a special partiton to run dos. I had the same thing but can't exactly remember how to fix it. Don't go berzerk just yet. I think all your data is there. Seems like I did some type of repair from the CD like fdisk fixmbr or one of the administator tools. Sorry I can't remember what did it. I sure I didn't do a reinstall just some undo of norton.

I have had the same thing occur a few days ago and it is easy to fix if you have 2 bootable hard drives plugged into the motherboad. You can boot to the secondary drive and go into the Disk Management utilty and delete the small Ghost partition that is created and re activate your Windows partition. My problem is that I have had the problem occur again, but this time on a laptop with no second bootable hard drive. I have successfully deleted the Ghost partion by booting up from the Windows XP CD (as if I were doing a reinstall) and when asked what partition I wanted to install to I simply deleted the partition that did not belong. I have also gone into the recovery console and run both the 'fixboot' and fixmbr' command, but am still unable to boot to my Windows XP partition. The partition needs to be set to active, but I cannot recall how to do that at the moment. I realize that the old FDISK utilty will allow me to do this, but I have no floppy drive on this laptop and my attempts to make a bootable CD have been successful (using Nero 6.x), but I cannot seem to find the correct version of FDISK.

Found the solution on: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2002110115000025?Open&src=bar_sch_nam&docid=2002092510522725&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=8f7dc138830563c888256c2200662ecd&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl= To use GDisk to activate the Windows partition Locate or obtain a floppy disk that has the GDisk.exe file. Note that this file is available on the Norton Ghost 2003 CD in the Support folder. Remove any CDs or floppy disks that are in the computer. Insert a Windows 98 Startup Disk or other bootable floppy disk into the drive and start the computer. If you used a Windows 98 Startup Disk, then you see a menu. Choose the option that opens a DOS command prompt. If you used a Ghost Standard Boot Disk, then you may see a Ghost menu. Choose Quit to exit to a DOS command prompt. Insert the Norton Ghost 2003 CD into the CD-R or CD-RW drive. Type the following: E: E:\Gdisk 1 /i Use the drive letter of your CD-R/RW device in place of drive E. This command displays status information regarding the partitions. Examine the information to find the partition number of the Ghost Virtual Partition and the partition number of the drive's primary partition. The primary partition is usually the partition to which you installed Windows. Type: Gdisk 1 /del /p:y /i In place of letter y, use the partition number of the Ghost Virtual Partition. This command deletes the Ghost Virtual Partition. Type: Gdisk 1 /act /p:x /i In place of the letter x, use the partition number of drive's primary partition. This command makes the primary partition active. Remove the floppy disk and CD. Restart the computer.