SATA hard drive using GHOST skills summary

                  Using GHOST to do system backup I think many of the friends here will do it, but there are also many friends, especially those who use SATA hard disk. When using GHOST to make backups to the system, you may have encountered such a situation, using a floppy disk or CD. After booting into the system, the system blacked out after using the GHOST.EXE command and crashed. Is GHOST not supporting SATA devices? Isn't we able to make a backup of the system after using the SATA hard drive? The answer is, SATA hard drive can also be used for cloning, but it requires a little trick in operation.

First, let's analyze why the system will crash under normal circumstances. In general, the SATA hard disk motherboards are all I865PE (North Bridge) + ICH5R (South Bridge) chipsets, but due to the limitations of the ICH5R South Bridge chip itself, one of the IDE channels is used under WIN9X, WINNT, and DOS systems. It will not work, which is why the system will stop responding after we start GHOST, because GHOST can't judge which set of IDEs is available in the system. After we know the reason, we can prescribe the right medicine. Generally, the BIOS of the motherboard of the 865 provides an option to shield a set of IDE channels, so that the system still only recognizes two sets of IDE channels. Below I take the ASUS P4P800 motherboard as an example to explain the operation method in detail: (The following methods are all CD boot mode)

1, a hanging SATA1 SATA hard interfaces, a CDROM hanging PRIMARY IDE interface (provided as master):

a) boot into the BIOS setting, in the mAIN Select IDE Configuration

in the menu b) Change Onboard IDE Operate Mode to Compatible Mode

c) Select [Primary P-ATA+S-ATA] in [Enhanced Mode Support On] < BR>
d) After rebooting into the BIOS, you will find only 4 IDE devices in the MAIN menu, [Primary IDE MASTER] is [CDROM], [Primary IDE Slave] is [NONE], [Secondary IDE Master ][IDE DISK] (the model of your hard disk), [[Secondary IDE Slave] is [NONE]

e) After booting into DOS with a CD, you can run GHOST

2, a SATA hard drive is attached to the SATA1 interface, and a CDROM is attached to the SECONDARY IDE. :
Just change the [Primary P-ATA+S-ATA] in the third step above to [Secondary P-ATA+S-ATA], and the system will treat SATA1 and SATA2 devices as [Primary IDE Master] and [Primary IDE Slave].

3, if you use the motherboard supports SATA, but SATA devices when not in use, some motherboard BIOS the SATA channel or turned on by default, in which case you want to use GHOST to backup system can lead to a black screen, so we Also need to set it in the BIOS to block the SATA channel, or in the third step of the first case, change [Primary P-ATA+S-ATA] to [P-ATA Ports Only]. The system will block the SATA device, you can use it as a normal motherboard without SATA devices.