ghost pata to sata?

[imported_asfd]

replacing my pata system drive with a new sata, do not want to reinstall all the programs, try to
ghost pata to sata with ghost 2003 or 9.0.
anyone ever tried similar task? and any potential problems? thanks for any input.

 

[imported_asfd]

anyone? thanks

 

[CraigRT]

I am curious if that would work also. if it would, I'd upgrade right now, as I do not want to format at this time.

 

[LED]

I use Ghost 2002 with NP even from RAID 0 to PATA from 2 WD Raptors

 

[imported_asfd]

thanks, if it worked out, I will post my result here. save tons of labor.

 

[coejus]

It should work fine.

 

[Steven the Leech]

Make sure you have the drivers for your sata controller installed before you make your image. esp if it is a raid controller.

 

[LED]

Good point Steven the Leech...as I go the opposite but when I travel from PATA to SATA those drivers are needed so I put em in

 

[batmanuel]

Could be slow if the program you are using doesn't support your SATA controller well. I tried removing GoBack recently to upgrade it on a computer using an Intel 915 chipset and it took three hours for GoBack to remove its history files when it was working outside of Windows. GoBack has always been MUCH faster using PATA drives before, so I'm assuming it was falling back to some super slow PIO mode because it didn't recognize the SATA controller.

 

[Auric]

Check out the Ghost switches fni and noide. Otherwise, the drive manufacturer likely offers a free copy proggy from Ontrack or such (both may have to be same manufacturer though and the copy may be slower).

 

[gabemcg]

should work fine, good call on driver support

 

[Rukkian]

We have done it several times at work using a ghost multicast server and send images back and forth (pata, sata, and scsi) on Dell desktops, laptops, and HP workstations and have not run into any problems.

 

[imported_asfd]

thank you guys all, will try it tonight or this weekend.

 

[imported_asfd]

upgrade it last night. My drive is samsung sata 120gb, sp1213c, and I used the install utility tools
from samsung instead of ghost. The utility did all the job, install drive and copy the drive from old
boot drive. the copying process is slow (2+ hours on 17gb programs copied), but it worked! Now my
new system is working like a charm. Still found some problems, as batmanuel commented, some program
runs wierd. f.g, each time starting everest benchmark tool, the voltage on 12v and 5v jumped to 16v and 6v, don't know why. I didn't install the sata/scsi driver, and cannot find the info on device manager either-under ide device, there are only ide and pci/ide info (I am using windows normal ide driver,not from nvidia). but windows support sata auto on my asus k8b, nforce-3 board? strange..

 

[SUOrangeman]

Ghost *may* have been much faster, as long you have a fairly recent version. I've never had an nForce3 system to work with, so I don't know hoe nVidia represents things within the device manager. Worst case, you can just reinstall the nForce drivers to see it new stuff shows up.

-SUO