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Need help with RAID 0

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I recenlty purchased Acronis and was using it to backup my RAID 0 array ( 2 x Intel 330 180GB SSD). About a week later I was havibng major issues and decided to restore from the backups I had created on another drive. I was able to get into windows and activate the Acronis restore. It rebooted and began the process. At about 60% it froze at which point my PC rebooted on it's own. Unable to recognize OS install, yadda yadda yadda. I was unasble to create a boot disk at this point because my drives were thrashed. I attempted to reinstall Win7Pro and found my drives had been switched from MBR to GPT. Long story short, I had to break the array, format,. rebuild and reinstall.

How does something like this happen?

Can someone explain to me the correct way to install, backup and restore (in the event of another problem)? When I instakll TruImage, should I immediately make a boot disc? Can I install TruImage on a drive other than my OS drive? Which type of backup should I be using for a RAID 0 array? I want to set it up to backup to a separate HDD and have the ability to restore the array at any time(a la System Restore).

I thought I was doing these things correctly until the restore failed. All of my backups were verified by Acronis etc.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

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Yes, you should not rely on the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. This thing will be not work if your disk dies.
All restores and clones of partitions containing a system should be done from the recovery CD.
You can download the ISO of the recovery CD from your Acronis account after you have registered your serial number on that web site.

If your RAID 0 is set up in hardware, you just need to backup your entire RAID volume (including all the partitions on it) in a disk and partition backup. Then boot on the recovery CD to verify that you can easily recover a couple of files from that backup.

If your RAID 0 is set up in software, you have dynamic disks, you will need the Plus Pack to back this up and restore.

I am going to purchase the Plus pack then. Can you give me instructions on how to correctly back up the RAID 0 disks? It is the onboard (software) RAID of my ASUS P8Z77-V Pro motherboard, Intel controller. Thank you for help :)

Do I need anything beside the Plus Pack upgrade?

Also, how do I opt out of the online backup and the $4.95 monthly fee? I do not want this.

Any help with which backup type and which options to use when setting up a RAID 0 system drive backup? I would really appreciate the help, I can't seem to find it in the help section, thanks.

Also, should I install Acronis True image and Plus pack on my system drive or my backup drive?

Wait, you don't need the plus pack if you have a hardware RAID. I checked my first post, and it is correct.

About the online subscription, if you paid anything, you need to contact ACronis support to cancel. If you didn't pay anything, don't subscribe and log out of ATI (Acronis True Image).

Install ATI in Windows. Create a disk and partition backup following this excellent guide: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

Oh well, I already bought the Plus Pack. I'm sure I will get a use out of it in the future. Chipset RAID isn't true hardware RAID AFAIK. I know the basics of everything I've been asking (Or so I thought...), It's just that ever since I lost that RAID array and was unable to recover it, I'm second guessing every tiny thing involving the new backup. Thank you for the guide, I'm going to follow it to the letter :)