Questions about restoring in Acronis True Image

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I am missing my raid setup.

I currently have Vista installed on a single 500gb WD drive.

What I would like to do is get one more 250gb drive, giving me 4 in total, and run them in RAID 0. I liked my 3 disk setup, so maybe I will like 4 more. Mabye not.

Anyway, if I used acronis true image to make an image of my current C drive, would I be able to rstore that to a RAID array? Its just that while I miss my RAID, I don't want to go through re-installing everything again.

Obviously, I would enable RAID in BIOS and install RAID drivers prior to doing this so Vista had the drivers.
 
It depends if Acronis TI supports your raid array, the boot disk uses linux so it doesn't always have necessary drivers to support raid.
 
If you have a spare IDE hard drive stick that into your PC install Windows XP on it and Acronis and your raid drivers then restore the acronis image to the raid array from within Windows, shutdown and disconect the IDE hard drive and boot from the Raid...

Jobs a good'n.... :)
 
J.T said:
If you have a spare IDE hard drive stick that into your PC install Windows XP on it and Acronis and your raid drivers then restore the acronis image to the raid array from within Windows, shutdown and disconect the IDE hard drive and boot from the Raid...

Jobs a good'n.... :)
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YOU'RE SO CLEVER ;)

So would need the raid drivers loaded on XP...

Another question though - the disk wizard utility from Seaget is a sctripped down version of A TI, which is what I was thinking of using. It requires either a maxtor or seagate drive, which I have, but if they are in a RAID array, will it still be able to detect that I have Seagate drives?
 
Yes you need to load the raid drivers onto the IDE drive (XP), if thats what you where asking?

I did this on mine, worked a treat and means if for some reason my raid or raid disks go bang I have a drive ready to chuck into my system so I can at least still use it. :)
 
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