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Heel, I have a backup created from a Dell 2850 Server running Windows 2000 Server. It contains three drives, broken down in a RAID 5 (3 drives) and a RAID 1. The backup was taken with Acronis 11.5 in an offline situation( booting from a CD) and the backup was loaded onto a external hard drive. I am currently restoring to a different server, but the same hardware, and raid set up the same. When i retire the backup, setting up the MBR, FAT, and C and D Drive that all reside not he RAID 5, I then start restore. The restore completes without any issues, and the system boots up to Windows as it should. The system seems to run fine, even rebooting the majority of the time without issue, until once in awhile you get a BSOD showing inaccessible boot device. This prompted further research to finds the volumes were showing the proper size but unmounted. I then went in and converted the basic disk to dynamic, and this again seems to solve problem for most part as now the c drive is identified, but there is still an identical drive the same size as the c that is unmounted. How do I eliminate or do my restore in a different fashion that eliminates this. This is a Windows 2000 Server SP4 and I am running a bootable Acorns 11. I can also install Acorns 11.5 onto the basic Windows 2000 server if this will help. Kind of stuck here and tiring of the blue screen. Maybe I am being stupid but am stumped and am reaching out for help. Thank you.

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Hi eric,

Thank you for your posting! Could you please provide us with more details:

  • screenshots of the Disk Management in Windows from the original server and from the restored server;
  • picture of the BSOD error message;
  • pictures of the settings in the recovery task;
  • does the issue occur regularly or not?
  • could you clerify, were the original disks combined in RAID 1 or RAID 5?

Thank you,

Issues occurs every time. I cannot send you the original screen shots, but will gather from a separate server that is set up the same. It occurs every time we use the backups created from any of our windows 2000 machines. original and backups were raid 5, with basically 2 virtual disks.