My system C Drive, NTSF, to a 2 drive Raid-0 (will be a system C Drive)
My system C Drive, NTSF, to a 2 drive Raid-0 (will be a system C Drive)
I might be doing the opposite of 5362.
I have a C Drive, NTSF, that I need to somehow backup. Then copy to a Raid-0, 2 drives. Then current drive is the system disk. The raid will also be the system drive.
It seems it might be possible, from what I have read here. I'm a bit clue less on the path to take.
Bob

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In general. Maybe I need to consider how RAID-zero and Asus interact.
Once I install a Raidf-0 with two drives and have been using for a period of time I might be ready for Acronis.
I have two ways to look at the data I want to backup.
1. As system drive. As a system drive I believe would have to be a clone or an image backup.
2. Back in the day, you would not be able to select different files from the image Back-Up. And now seems, based on the documentation, you can acquire from the clone and if needed you could also use the clone for a system restore. Now here is my concern. When Acronis backs up a Raid-0 does it look at the files as if it was coming from a single drive? Therefore, when I have to recover to a new Raid-0 drive or only use selected files it works. And in the case of a raid-0 recovery the files will be automatically disbursed between the two drives as a RAID-0 would need.
Bob
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I believe that if it is a hardware raid, it wiill see the RAID 0 as a single disk. If it is a software RAID, I beleive it will see each drive as it's own disk which could be problematic since the RAID is only available in the OS. It does say software RAID is supported, but I think most backup and recovery would have to be done once the OS has already been loaded (not sure though as I've not used software RAID with Acronis).
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#21822.html
- Does Acronis True Image 2016 support RAID? - Acronis True Image 2016 supports hardware RAID arrays of all popular types. Support of software RAIDconfigurations on dynamic disks is also provided. Acronis Bootable Rescue Media supports most of the popular hardware RAID controllers. If the standard Acronis rescue media does not "see" the RAID as a single volume, the media does not have the appropriate drivers. In this case you can try to create WinPE-based rescue media. This media may provide the necessary drivers.
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Thanks for your time and help.
Bob
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I am trying to do a similar thing as Amerifax of cloning the old HDD in ACHI mode to a new SSD RAID array. The User Guide says
"Warning! Your old and new hard drives must work in the same controller mode (for example, IDE or AHCI). Otherwise, your computer will not start from the new hard drive."
Does that mean that one cannot use True Image 2016 to clone your old HDD to a new SSD RAID array and then successfully boot from the new RAID?
I gave it a go anyway and ATI reconises the new array as i did a fresh install of windows 10 on it, but it can not find the removable USB media that is plugged in with the 'old' HDD image and it just stalls. It asks me plug inthe removable media repeatedly bt shifting USB ports etc makes no difference. Any ideas please?
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Martin, I've responded in your original forum thread already - please see there.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/115502
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