A hardware change --> hardware problem then. Solved, but the situation is not to any satisfaction. Now everything really should be fine as Ghost 8 in fact supports SATA drives. You might have a Intel problem:
Ghost is compatible with the new Serial ATA (SATA) standard.
If you are experiencing problems like Ghost hanging, locking up, or freezing when loading or while "initializing TCP/IP" once Ghost loads, the problem lies with the interrupt handling for the Intel 865 Chipsets and later. Upgrading to the latest version of Norton Ghost 2003 or Symantec Ghost 8.x resolves the problem. Also, see the Technical Information section below for information about an update to Symantec Ghost 7.5.
Workaround
Depending upon the mix of SATA and IDE drives installed to your system, one of the following switches should resolve the problem:
- If you have an IDE and an SATA drive, or only IDE drives:
-FNI Forces Ghost to use the BIOS to gain access to the IDE drive.
- If you have an SATA drive and no IDE drives:-NOIDE Disables access to IDE devices.
In any case you should update Ghost and everyting will be fine.
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