snorkel89 Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 I was using gdisk to wipe the partion create a new DOS with a DOS Netware IP boot cd. we now have some Dell gx 280s that have SATA drives. I can not fdisk, use gdisk (just hangs) WITH OUT going into the BIOS and changing a SATA drive option to "combination" mode which says it make is compatible with older OS's (like DOS). just wonder if someone knows a work around for the DOS SATA, gdisk problem.I am going to try PXE soon.M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 HiHave you tried gdisk from Ghost v8.0? I had similar problems while loading an image and got it working using -fni switch with ghost.exe. Ghost.exe from v8.0 worked without the switch.CheersRaja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorkel89 Posted September 5, 2004 Author Share Posted September 5, 2004 Unfortunatly I do not have Ghost v8.0 to get gdisk. I will try to find it though.M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorkel89 Posted September 5, 2004 Author Share Posted September 5, 2004 I do have PqDisk.exe from Power Quest Toolkit that works.On a a IDE + win2k I can script it to format and then start the win2k install, with no reboot.On a SATA drive it seems i have to reboot, which is better than making another BIOS setting change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted September 6, 2004 Share Posted September 6, 2004 Try this;On making the relevant BIOS change use gdisk as you have been to create and format the partition as you want. You may do Sys C: as well to install the DOS system files. Once done then dump the image of the formatted hard drive on to a server share as a ghost image file.For any other PC where you have NOT made the BIOS change, load the saved image to its hard drive using Ghost with -FNI switch. Alternatively on executing Ghost, you can select -FNI form Options -> Hard Drive.If the partition image is successfully transferred on to the new pc without making any BIOS change then I am sure that Gdisk.exe from version 8.0 of Ghost should work.Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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