Inaccessible CD-ROM drive, IDE CD-ROM drives | Symantec 10024709

Troubleshooting

Writing to a recordable CD or DVD

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Inaccessible CD-ROM drive

When writing to a compatible CD-R/RW drive, the drive may not be accessible to Norton Ghost. To discover whether this is a problem, check one of the following:

■Ghosterr.txt: Ghosterr.txt is located in the same directory as the Ghost executable.

See “Diagnostics” on page 201.

■Log file: A log file may have been created that can be viewed in the View Log. See “Viewing the task log” on page 59.

IDE CD-ROM drives

To see if an IDE CD-R/RW drive is inaccessible to Norton Ghost, open

Ghosterr.txt or the log file.

The IDE sections are named one or more of the following:

■IDE

■IDE for PIO

■IDE for UDMA

If the word Unavailable appears under these headings, then check the following:

■Ensure that the firmware for your CD-R/RW drive is current.

Check the Web site for the CD-R/RW drive manufacturer for the most current firmware.

■Update the computer BIOS with the latest version.

The computer BIOS may not be enabled to detect the IDE drive.

■Check the controller to which the IDE drive is attached.

The IDE drive might be attached to a controller that requires a driver for access. Check the documentation for the controller to determine whether you need to load an IDE driver when starting your computer. Drivers may be needed for controllers that are included on the computer’s motherboard. Reading and writing from a CD-R/RW drive are different processes. You may be able to access a CD-R/RW drive from DOS to read the drive, but not to write to the drive.

SCSI CD-R/RW drives

To see if a SCSI CD-R/RW drive is inaccessible to Norton Ghost, open Ghosterr.txt or the log file. The SCSI section is named ASPI.

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Creating boot disks and boot images See Image files and CD/DVD writers on Standard boot disks Creating boot disks and boot images Creating boot disks and boot images To create a boot disk with network support Boot disks with network support Creating boot disks and boot images To create a boot disk with CD-ROM and DVD support Boot disks with CD-ROM and DVD support To create a boot disk that supports mapping network drives Boot disks with drive mapping network supportSee Installing MS-DOS Client files on Creating boot disks and boot images Click Device Manager Expand Network Adapter Selecting a template To create a multicard template Multicard templates and the boot diskSee Adding network drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard on Adding packet drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard Adding network drivers to the Ghost Boot WizardTo begin adding a network driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard To add a packet driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard To add an NDIS2 driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard Adding NDIS2 drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard To modify a template Adding command-line parameters to a boot packageCustomizing the template Click Start Program Files Windows Explorer Providing MS-DOSCheck Copy System Files Clone Parameters Description To uninstall MS-DOS from your computer To install MS-DOS on your computer Backing up, restoring, and cloning from DOS To use Norton Ghost An overview of using Ghost.exe Starting the Norton Ghost executable Navigating without a mouse See Creating boot disks and boot images onMarking your disks \progra~1\symantec \Norton~1\ghost.exe Action Master Slave Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe To connect two computers peer-to-peer Backing up a hard disk to an image file To back up a disk to an image file Local Click Local Disk To Image Backing up a partition to an image file See Image files and volume spanning onSee Verifying image integrity on Local Click Local Partition To Image See Image files and compression on Restoring from an image file To restore a disk from an image fileRestoring a hard disk from an image file Local Click Local Disk From Image Restoring from an image file Local Click Local Partition From Image To restore a partition from an image fileRestoring a partition from an image file Cloning disks and partitions To clone disk to disk Cloning disk to disk To clone from partition to partition Cloning partition to partitionLocal Click Local Partition To Partition To verify the integrity of an image file Verifying image integrityLocal Click Local Check Image File To verify the integrity of a disk Adding switches to your Ghost operation Tab Command-line options To add switches to your Ghost operation Adding switches to your Ghost operation Backing up and restoring with CD-R/RW and DVD- R/RW Image files and CD/DVD writers Type of drive Media 114 Backing up and restoring with CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW To split an image file as it is created Splitting an image file during a backup 116 Backing up and restoring with CD-R/RW 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