Doc,

You are right about SATA and I have read in posts where people disable it before imaging a system.

-FFX Drive detection Causes Norton Ghost to prefer the use of Extended Interrupt 13h disk access for hard disk drive operations. Ghost 5.1c and later

-FNI Drive detection Disables direct IDE access support.
Use the NOIDE switch if you want to turn off all IDE access with Norton Ghost 2003.

Kent
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