Acronis Home Edition & Intel Raid

markyb · 10 Sep 2008 at 10:40

Guys,

I did an image of my disk last night with no problems at all. I wish now to copy the contents of the image onto a Raid 0 setup. I did a little looking around and Acronis supports most raid setups...

I setup the raid and booted from the Acronis disk. It is not picking up the Raid at all. Only 1 SATA drive which is not part of the RAID.

P5B-Deluxe (ICH7) Controller
2x 74Gb Raptors in RAID 0

Any advice?

Rudeboy · 10 Sep 2008 at 13:06

I'm sure when you build the Acronis recovery CD it is based on your current configuration and sources drivers accordingly. If you weren't RAID'ed when you made the disk, then I don't think that it'll be able to see the RAID when you boot from it.

Although a lot of others have had this problem in the past and I believe if you contacted support they were able to provide a newer release which supported RAID.

Alternatively build yourself a BART image and incorporate Acronis into it.

bledd · 10 Sep 2008 at 13:33

update to newest acronis

11.8101 fixes intel raid issues, i know because i was on their forums going mental at them until they fixed it

hernaldo · 10 Sep 2008 at 17:09

bledd. said:
update to newest acronis

11.8101 fixes intel raid issues, i know because i was on their forums going mental at them until they fixed it

No it doesn't!

I can tell you now, the only time it can see the RAID setup is when the drives have already been formatted....Which is pretty useless.

So for example, you want to restore a backup to a freshly created array? You have no windows loaded obviously, so its very hard to find a way to format the disks without going through a lot of hassle...

For me, I had to do a basic install of vista....then reboot into the DOS True Image console...THEN it could see the drives...

Pretty messed up though if you ask me.

This was with the LATEST 8101 version.

hernaldo · 10 Sep 2008 at 17:10

Rudeboy said:
I'm sure when you build the Acronis recovery CD it is based on your current configuration and sources drivers accordingly. If you weren't RAID'ed when you made the disk, then I don't think that it'll be able to see the RAID when you boot from it.

Although a lot of others have had this problem in the past and I believe if you contacted support they were able to provide a newer release which supported RAID.

Alternatively build yourself a BART image and incorporate Acronis into it.

Compelte rubbish, no extra drivers are loaded at all based on your hardware when creating a recovery cd.

AbsenceJam · 10 Sep 2008 at 17:37

If their own disk or startup recovery manager doesn't work then make a VistaPE disk.

wombraider · 10 Sep 2008 at 19:48

Correct about the Raid array being invisible until you create a dummy partition on it!

My method ,
Create new array in raid controller
Boot PC with Acronis disk director disk and create a "dummy" partition
Boot with acronis trueimage and then restore your image

It damn weird that it wont see an array unless its got a partition on it :-(

bledd · 11 Sep 2008 at 10:07

hernaldo said:
No it doesn't!

I can tell you now, the only time it can see the RAID setup is when the drives have already been formatted....Which is pretty useless.

So for example, you want to restore a backup to a freshly created array? You have no windows loaded obviously, so its very hard to find a way to format the disks without going through a lot of hassle...

For me, I had to do a basic install of vista....then reboot into the DOS True Image console...THEN it could see the drives...

Pretty messed up though if you ask me.

This was with the LATEST 8101 version.

report it to acronis, working fine with ICH9R

-edit, re-read what you said, i've not tried with a non partitioned array

does it let you 'add new disk' ?

paulafrancis · 14 Oct 2008 at 10:20

raid 1 acronis

I have tried with my TI8 on my abit 35pro board raid 1 and can't get the rescue disk to work. Can you confirm that this is actually sorted in TI 11 before I install it.

thanks