New drive hide and seek

[hbessel]

Hello People,

I installed a new hard drive (IDE), I formatted it, shows up in My
Computer and other places, can save files to it.

But when I use Norton Ghost to clone the drive or the XP install disk
to install XP, the drive can't be located.

Any ideas?

Hans

 

[Guest]

Hans,
in what way is the disk hooked to the system (ie: sata, onboard raid
controller, ide, etc.)? It very well could be that if the disk is sata, then
you would need to hit F2 to load the correct drivers from a floppy for
windows install to see the drive. I am pretty sure that Norton Ghost also
can not see sata drives although I haven't used Ghost in a long time. I have
come to prefer Acronis True Image for my backups since Ghost always seemed to
give me problems.

HTH,
Gordon