Greetings:
I am working with a Samsung notebook running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, single Sata HDD. Ghost 15 was purchased online and downloaded as an ISO file which was then used to install Ghost. Backups are done as Independent Recovery Points (full backup) and stored on a Seagate USB 3.0-connected HDD.
I created a Recovery CD from the installed Ghost system. USB drive was connected at the time. When I try to boot with the Recovery CD (or with the original installation CD for that matter) it goes through the "Loading Files" process, but then the screen goes black and nothing else will happen. I have let it go as much as 6 hours.
I believe this is a problem related to the Windows PE environment on the recovery CD not having the correct drivers to recognize the notebook's Sata storage system. I thought Ghost was smart enough to include the necessary drivers from the machine it was created on. Is this a problem because it's a 64-bit system and the recovery CD runs in 32-bit? I have tried and failed to figure out what drivers to add manually when I create a recovery CD. The Notebook has an Intel 5 Series 4-port Sata AHCI controller.
I have tried disabling AHCI in the BIOS. This is the only option in the BIOS setup. There is no other Sata Mode setting, for instance, to tell it to run the Sata drive in IDE mode.
The only other possibility I can think of is that maybe this is a display problem(??), like at the point the screen goes black is the point where the CD-based "Windows" takes over.
I am out of ideas. if anyone has one, I would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Don