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Need to image a RAID + SSD Setup

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I have a home-built computer using Intel's "Smart Response Technology", which uses an SSD drive as a cache drive. The main storage is a series of 4 750 GB drives in RAID 10. (The motherboard is an Asus P8Z68-V.)

What I want to be able to do is image the computer to a USB drive on initial installation. Basically, get the OS installed, drivers installed, programs I will always use, and then make an image so if the computer ever gets "borked" up, I can just restore the image and start from scratch.

I've tried this in the past but failed as the Acronis boot CD would not recognize my RAID setup and I could not "see" the drives, so I'm hopeful that perhaps a current Acronis product will help me.

What product(s) do I need to purchase that will allow me to do a recovery from a boot disk and a USB-based hard drive with a home computer that has the OS installed on a RAID set? I don't want to have Acronis installed from the GUI. I don't need it there as I have other backup software that I prefer. But I do want that initial image for a perodic, or emergency, restore.

Thank you for your help!

-Matt

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Matthew,

Try the 2013 bootable CD. You don't need to install ATI to do that. Register for the trial, get your serial number, register that on the Acronis.com account, get your bootable ISO, burn it to a CD *as an ISO*.
If it doesn't see your RAID then you will have to upgrade to the Plus Pack, install ATI, then Plus Pack, then create a WinPE-based disk. WinPE-based disks use Windows drivers. If it doesn't support your RAID, you can try to inject drivers are you create the WIN-PE based.

How can I create the boot disk without installing ATI? The download is a large EXE file called "ATIH2013_trial_en-US.exe".

Thanks for your help!

Matthew,

If you have registered your purchase the recovery Cd is available for you to download from your account, it is about 100MB if I recall correctly.

You also can download a trial version of the recovery CD (not sure what the restrictions are), from your account again if you have registered the trial serial number. You might find you need to log in via the US website to see the trial version of the recovery CD.

Pat L wrote:

Matthew,

Try the 2013 bootable CD. You don't need to install ATI to do that. Register for the trial, get your serial number, register that on the Acronis.com account, get your bootable ISO, burn it to a CD *as an ISO*.

Ahh, I misunderstood the directions here. Lemme try this and I'll be right back.

Well sonofagun, it worked! Well, at least it recognized my drives. I tried to do a backup but it informed me that this was the trial version and it wouldn't let me do it.

So I went ahead and bought ATI 2013 and I'm downloading the boot CD right now. Very very happy. Hopefully it'll work! :)