Question : Ghost 10 - Error: The Destination disk could not be locked (643)

I have a Dell Vostro 220 running XP Pro SP3.

For the past several years, I have been using Ghost 10 to image and restore images on hard drives by just booting from the CD itself and choosing the "Recover" option which then boots you into the Dos version of Ghost 8.2 interface.

 I found on some of the newer Dell PC's, I would have to go into the BIOS and change a setting for "AHCI" to "ATA" in order to create an image or restore the image. If I don't, the PC would "blue-screen". After the image is completed, I would go back into the BIOS and change the setting back to AHCI. the PC then would boot perfectly fine.

For some reason, all of the Dell Vostro 220 series PC's that I have worked on - all  get the above mentioned error. This particular PC Bios doesn't offer to change the AHCI to ATA. The only two options are AHCI and RAID. Both options fail.

Has anyone seen this issue?
Is it possible that Ghost 10's built-in Dos version of Ghost 8.2 is too old?
Should I be using another Disk Imaging tool?

Answer : Ghost 10 - Error: The Destination disk could not be locked (643)

Just stick in an Ubuntu live CD and an external disk, and you can boot to the CD then do a binary copy if that is all you want to do.  You end up with a bit-copy of the disk either to another drive, or to a data file on a drive.    Since the PC is booted to a different O/S and the windows file system is not mounted and no windows executables are running, copying is clean and there are no "busy" files.

google LINUX imaging software, there are even custom-made ISOs you can download for purposes of backup/restore any disk to any target.  

I don't keep up with all the flavors of ghost, so can't tell you what version(s) support AHCI, but I am sure that a simple call to the 800 number will get you the tech info, plus discounted upgrade price.