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Hi,
going bananas with my new unit. I bought a SATA burner, and a SATA II HD for my dual Opteron system.
I've installed W2K3 Server on it, patched it to the max, and now I want to ghost it before installing the board-specific drivers.

Stumped. I can't find a driver for dos-mode W98 that will work w/ my burner. The drive is a Plextor PX-716SA.

My other machines have IDE burners, and SATA drives, and Ghost can write to them no problem.

I don't know if ghost will read the drives or not, but the OS can't see the optical drive.

The W98 bootable CD boots OK, and I can see the HD, but W98 won't load a CD driver.

Any ideas?
Can't phone Plextor 'til Monday. I could throw an IDE burner in there temporarily, but it would suck to have to keep switching all the time. I take snapshots of machines as I build them so I don't have to re-start from scratch when I screw up.

Regards,
Vorpal

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Short answer: DOS/Win98-era CD drivers generally won’t make a modern SATA optical drive visible if the motherboard’s controller is running in AHCI/RAID mode. The practical fixes are (1) have the BIOS present the SATA ports as legacy/IDE so DOS sees the burner, or (2) use a PE/Linux-based imaging environment that already includes or can load the chipset’s SATA driver. This applies to Plextor, Lite‑On and LG SATA drives alike — there’s no universal DOS “SATA CD” driver that works across chipsets.

Recommended options (in order of risk and convenience):

  • Toggle the SATA controller to “IDE/Legacy/Compatibility” in the BIOS so the optical drive appears as an ATAPI device. Caution: changing controller mode after an OS install can break Windows boot if the OS was installed with a different mode (AHCI vs IDE). Test or image the disk first, or avoid this step if Windows was installed in AHCI and cannot be changed safely.

  • Create a WinPE/BartPE (or other WinPE-based) boot image and inject the motherboard/chipset storage driver. Booting Ghost’s Windows build (ghost32) from WinPE will see SATA devices once the driver is loaded. For WinPE, use the Windows ADK/AIK and DISM to add drivers, then include ghost32.exe on the image.

  • Use a Linux-based live tool (Clonezilla, a small Linux live ISO) that has native SATA support and imaging tools, or connect the drive to another machine (or use a USB‑SATA adapter) and image from there.

Quick troubleshooting checklist: confirm the BIOS actually detects the optical drive, try a different SATA port (some boards have legacy ports), check for a BIOS option labeled “SATA Mode/IDE/AHCI/RAID”, and avoid toggling modes without first ensuring a safe path to restore Windows boot.

Addresses , and : the same approaches work for Plextor, Lite‑On and LG burners — either present the drive as legacy IDE or image from an environment that carries the appropriate storage driver.

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Did you ever find out how to do it, I have the same issure only with a Lite-on drive

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give Me solution for lg sata CD ROM DRIVER for ghost software

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