SATA recognition in Drive Image 7 or Ghost 10

[Devaprem]

Hi. I need help getting Drive Image 7 or Norton Ghost 10 to recognise SATA drivers. I am using an ECS PF21 motherboard that has an Intel 925X Express chipset with Intel 82801FR I/O controller hub (ICH6R). The memory Controller is 82925X.

Discs are Western Digital Caviar WD400 (40GB) system disc and WD3000 (300GB) data disc.

I realise that DI 7 does not officially support SATA, but was hoping I can load correct drivers through the F6 option. I have identified the correct drivers from the Intel website and used their floppy creation utility to create a disc with these on.

When I am running DI 7 or Norton Ghost 10 boot CD and press F6 to install third party drivers (using the correct driver from the floppy I created) I follow all the prompts correctly (I believe). However, when the Drive Image or Ghost recovery centres are fully loaded and I explore ‘My Computer’ neither of the two SATA drives is shown, only ‘Removable discs’ ‘C’ and ‘D’. Clicking on these prompts an ‘insert disc into drive’ dialogue. I am trying to access images created on the D drive for possible restoration, so any suggestions appreciated.

Edited April 16, 2006 by Devaprem

[dkreifus]

That F6 option is for WINDOWS to recognize your drives. Is this a normal XP installation?

A silent one? Windows PE?

We need more details. How is Windows being installed? If it is being installed on the SATA drive, and you got it to load up, then you have it recgonized.

[Devaprem]

Hi.. sorry fpr late reply - been away on business. The environment is a recovery one, either using the Norton Ghost 10 boot CD or the Powerquest Drive Image 7 boot CD. Both these have the F6 option for loading third party drivers just as XP does. I load these from the floppy drive with drivers for my Intel chipset 925XE / ICH6R and go into the recovery environment successfully (Norton or DI7 GUI). However, the drives are not seen.

Any suggestions? Let me know if more information needed

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[nitroshift]

in the bios try and set the sata controller to ide. did work for me.

[Devaprem]

Thanks for the suggestion. The BIOS setting is already set to IDE mode, if I've understood correctly. Is that what you meant?

[prathapml]

* This would be appropriate in HardwareHangout, moving topic to that section...

[Devaprem]

Thanks... anyone out there that can offer further suggestions?

[Thinkster]

Thanks... anyone out there that can offer further suggestions?

I would suggest dumping the ECS motherboard and get a real brand as well as going with

IDE Hard Drives! Trust me, you'll end up with a lot less headaches and much better compatibility with the applications your trying to use as well as many others...

[Devaprem]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I can't afford to change at present, so will have try to solve this problem. I'll bear in mind for next purchase, though.

[Andromeda43]

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

I've got an Asrock mobo and a SATA hard drive.

With an IDE drive on the IDE port as a backup drive.

I regularly boot up my system with my Ghost 2003 boot floppy (or CD),

make my backups and do an immediate restore for a fabulous Defrag.

Never, have I had any problem with Ghost reading my hard drive and writing my Image file to my Second SATA partition, to my IDE backup drive or even burning the Image directly to a DVD.

Ghost 2003 just works!

Wanna give it a try? PM me.

Andromeda43 B)

[Devaprem]

Hi...I have been using Ghost 10 in recovery mode (so booting from CD). If I just let it run thru the normal boot sequence, it successfully launches into the recovery console, but neither of the 2 SATA drives are shown. If I, instead, press 'f6' on boot up to load intel SATA drivers (supplied with mobo and verified independently by myself using intel tools), it launches into the recovery console again. However, this time I can see the two SATA drives, but these are shown as 'removable discs'. If I click on 1 to try to navigate, the prompt 'please inseert disc into drive c' (or '... D') comes up. It sounds like you are having better luck with Ghots 2003. I will try this in a couple of weeks when back at my PC.

Thanks

Devaprem

[prathapml]

The "luck" with Ghost2003 is probably because he has a supported SATA controller onboard....