Re: Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe - Can't upgrade from IDE to SATA

On 23 Sep 2005 01:39:23 -0700, newsbirdie2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I made some progress. I installed windows like a fresh install and
>could reboot just fine. so then I went back to ghost.. the problem
>appears to be with ghost, running in windows. I tried with the new
>drive as D and then when I went to do my repair install it saw windows
>in D:\windows so that was a mistake. I then redid the ghost, this time
>without giving the SATA drive a drive letter and then the repair
>install couldn't find the windows install. I expected ghost to make
>the SATA drive C:\windows. I guess it can't do that when running
>inside windows.
>
>I'm going to try the ghost boot cd without going into windows, and if
>that doesn't work, I will try acronis true image. I think ghost is a
>piece of crap at this point!!!

Well, I share that opinion. I have not been able to get Ghost 9 to
work at all on my new installation of XP. It errors out with codes
that indicate that there's a conflict with the Data Execution
Prevention (DEP) feature that was added to XP with SP2. However, even
if I disable DEP in BOOT.INI, XP still BSODs during launch with the
message that the Ghost driver caused a flaw. Fortunately, my XP
partition is FAT32, so it's simple to rename that driver to prevent it
from loading, after which XP launches normally . . . but Ghost, of
course, won't work.

This is strange because Ghost DOES work for me on an older
installation of XP that's been updated to SP2. The Symantec support
folks kicked this ticket all the way up to their "engineers," but
after a few emails, they stopped communicating with me. I presume
that was Symantec's way of telling me to f*&! off. They did not offer
to refund my purchase price. I wanted Ghost only because it allows
you to specify the number of full backups you want to keep, before
starting a new backup set, the only thing I can't do just as well or
better with Acronis True Image 8. (TI9 has been released, but it's
not clear whether this feature has been added or not.)

If you've read this far, my advice is to try the process with True
Image . . . after adding the Silicon Image SATA controller driver to
your original XP installation on the original P-ATA drive.



Ron
.

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