Ghost does not speak to a Samsung disk

[Gloops]

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I asked this question on the hardware newsgroup, but as this
one is more focused on storage questions, even if my hardware is not of
mark IBM, I eventually wonder whether it would not be more appropriate ...

I recently bought a new disk (a Samsung one, 400 GB), that I inserted
into an inclusion box, to connect it to an USB port on my Toshiba laptop.

It was nicely recognized in Windows XP, after I initiated and formated it.

Now, I should like to save the image of my internal disk to it, with
Ghost 2003.

Once in PCDOS, the disk is recognized when launching its driver in the
CONFIG.SYS, USBEHCI.SYS (and the model of the disk is displayed), but
after that, the usual procedure is to assign a drive letter, with the
GUEST command. At this level, things get wrong. The driver displays
"Finding a drive letter for your unit" (I quote it from memory), but
after that, I have time to go to the grocer's without running and come
back, and the same message is still displayed, no drive letter is
assigned, the control is not given back to the user. Usually, Ghost runs
nice to other disks.

Do you think I have to wait a longer time ? For the formatting I had a
problem because I did not wait enough, but I have got some difficulties
to believe the same time is needed to assign a drive letter, I tend to
think something else must be done.

Any idea what ?

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I asked this question on the hardware newsgroup, but as this
one is more focused on storage questions, even if my hardware is not of
mark IBM, I eventually wonder whether it would not be more appropriate ...

I recently bought a new disk (a Samsung one, 400 GB), that I inserted
into an inclusion box, to connect it to an USB port on my Toshiba laptop.

It was nicely recognized in Windows XP, after I initiated and formated it.

Now, I should like to save the image of my internal disk to it, with
Ghost 2003.

Once in PCDOS, the disk is recognized when launching its driver in the
CONFIG.SYS, USBEHCI.SYS (and the model of the disk is displayed), but
after that, the usual procedure is to assign a drive letter, with the
GUEST command. At this level, things get wrong. The driver displays
"Finding a drive letter for your unit" (I quote it from memory), but
after that, I have time to go to the grocer's without running and come
back, and the same message is still displayed, no drive letter is
assigned, the control is not given back to the user. Usually, Ghost runs
nice to other disks.

Do you think I have to wait a longer time ? For the formatting I had a
problem because I did not wait enough, but I have got some difficulties
to believe the same time is needed to assign a drive letter, I tend to
think something else must be done.

Any idea what ?

Hmm. Maybe Ghost 2003 has a 128GB limit? Maybe an intentionally left
in one to make you upgrade?

Arno

 

[Gloops]

Arno Wagner a écrit, le 02/09/2007 18:25 :

Hmm. Maybe Ghost 2003 has a 128GB limit? Maybe an intentionally left
in one to make you upgrade?

Arno

Oh, I did not think to that.

Maybe formatting with a 120 GB partition could help ?

Nevertheless, I already used Ghost to a 250 GB disk ...


Thank you for your quick answer.

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I asked this question on the hardware newsgroup, but as this
one is more focused on storage questions, even if my hardware is not of
mark IBM, I eventually wonder whether it would not be more appropriate ...

I recently bought a new disk (a Samsung one, 400 GB), that I inserted
into an inclusion box, to connect it to an USB port on my Toshiba laptop.

It was nicely recognized in Windows XP, after I initiated and formated it.

Now, I should like to save the image of my internal disk to it, with
Ghost 2003.

Once in PCDOS, the disk is recognized when launching its driver in the
CONFIG.SYS, USBEHCI.SYS (and the model of the disk is displayed), but
after that, the usual procedure is to assign a drive letter, with the
GUEST command. At this level, things get wrong. The driver displays
"Finding a drive letter for your unit" (I quote it from memory), but
after that, I have time to go to the grocer's without running and come
back, and the same message is still displayed, no drive letter is
assigned, the control is not given back to the user. Usually, Ghost runs
nice to other disks.

Do you think I have to wait a longer time ? For the formatting I had a
problem because I did not wait enough, but I have got some difficulties
to believe the same time is needed to assign a drive letter, I tend to
think something else must be done.

Any idea what ?

You might like to try a different EHCI and HD driver, if only for
diagnostic purposes.

See
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.misc/msg/4dbe534a93d566de?hl=en&

- Franc Zabkar

 

[month]

one ghost thing - with ghost 2003 which i used to use - it hates SATA drives

google will throw up such and i found out the hard way

now an acronis man

might help you but if not , useful to know



Hello everybody,

Yesterday I asked this question on the hardware newsgroup, but as this
one is more focused on storage questions, even if my hardware is not of
mark IBM, I eventually wonder whether it would not be more appropriate ...

I recently bought a new disk (a Samsung one, 400 GB), that I inserted
into an inclusion box, to connect it to an USB port on my Toshiba laptop.

It was nicely recognized in Windows XP, after I initiated and formated it.

Now, I should like to save the image of my internal disk to it, with
Ghost 2003.

Once in PCDOS, the disk is recognized when launching its driver in the
CONFIG.SYS, USBEHCI.SYS (and the model of the disk is displayed), but
after that, the usual procedure is to assign a drive letter, with the
GUEST command. At this level, things get wrong. The driver displays
"Finding a drive letter for your unit" (I quote it from memory), but
after that, I have time to go to the grocer's without running and come
back, and the same message is still displayed, no drive letter is
assigned, the control is not given back to the user. Usually, Ghost runs
nice to other disks.

Do you think I have to wait a longer time ? For the formatting I had a
problem because I did not wait enough, but I have got some difficulties
to believe the same time is needed to assign a drive letter, I tend to
think something else must be done.

Any idea what ?