Installing RAID Controller onto SBS server with 2 new drives

I blew away the array after installing the new Adaptec 5805 controller card. Created a new Raid 5 with the same 4- 73GB SAS drives.
From there, I added the 2- 146GB SAS drives to the backplane and configured a RAID 1.

The RAID 5 was noting "DYNAMIC" when booting through the Acronis cd.
The RAID 1 was noting "BASIC" when booting through the Acronis CD.

Because the primary array was dynamic and the backup drive I used to backup the server was not converted to dynamic, it will only recover to a basic disk.

The MBR could be written to the dynamic drive but the c: and F: paritions of my server could not. I saw that the server could be restored to the RAID 1, but I didn't have enough space. So, I blew that away in the RAID BIOS and reconfigured to RAID 0. I can't believe I am loading a SBS 2003 server to a RAID 0. Talk about Faith!!

The first try at the recovery failed. Somewhere during the recovery the restore stopped.
I chose to try agian, verifying the image and checking the validity of the restore.

When I bought this product I didn't believe that I would be a BETA tester for it.

The technical support relay team noted on several occasions what wouldn't work, but didn't think of having me restore the server to a working partition. I had to try that on my own.

Hence I am doing that now, after 4 hours of battling chat sessions. Then I have to boot to some linux CD to create a floppy of log files or a USB flash drive or screenshots with a digital camera of the technical issues my experience is having.

I boot with the appropriate RAID controller drivers and attempt to go to disk management with either the Linux or Windows versions of the boot CD's. The server reboots instantly.

So then the 10 minutes it takes to boot into the CD to be able to attempt to mount the image which said it was successful doesn't work.

I am now 30 minutes into the recovery, about 45 and the recovery fails.

After a backup and a successful notification, server dead. No escallation without a linux diagnostic though. That's too bad! Guess I will be restoring from tape. Word to the wise. Don't waste your $$$ on this product. You're better off using Windows backup.

Way to go Acronis! You've won my business!

Recovering server from nada.. Can I at least get the OS back on, reinstall the recovery software then try from witihin the OS to recover the server?