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trying to restore onboard raid to dissimilar non raid pc... no luck ...

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I am trying to setup a situation where a pc with 2 partitions ..partition 1 with one ssd and win7 boot and partition 2 with raid 10 for applications and data. The pc has an asus motherboard and we are using on board intel raid in the bios.The 2 partitions do not use a huge amount of data partition 1 about 200 gig partition 2 350 gig. So I have installed acronis trueimage 2019 and performed a full backup of all the disks to external usb hard drives. I now want to restore the partitions to dissimilar hardware a different pc without raid. After creating the backup with the boot option I now boot the drive to new pc and this is where the fun begins. After loading the acronis software and choosing the backup displayed it now wants to now the location of specific partitions and the destination (after choosing sector by sector recovery) because the delay time in choosing these partitions and destinations I hope that its working because of the time taken to recognize the data however at the end it goes into recover mode. At the end of an hour its done. so I reboot with Universal restore usb device. This is where it gets problematic.. it goes to 55% then wants a pci driver so I assume it wants the intel chipset driver to fix the sata mode, this computer is an hp desktop and if you go no-line for drivers it gives you the exe for this driver which i exttracted to a folder to be added to setup software but still did not work. So i checked the chipset needed was for the intel q75 express chipset and did some looking around for a single driver but no luck... so this is where i stand 55% recovery on universal recovery looking for a pci driver.... wonderfull  any advice?

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Louis,

A bit confused here in that you say you have a raid 10 partition?  That is impossible as a raid 10 would require a minimum of 4 disks. 

When you performed the recovery did the raid 10 show as a single disk or multiple disks (not partitions)?

The only way you will have success here is if in fact the raid 10 appears as a single drive to True Image.

I too am confused about the number of disk the system has. If you have RAID 10 then there should be at least 4 HDDs. You also mention an SSD, which seems to contain the operating system, rather than it being on the RAID 10 array.  

Assuming the RAID 10 only contains data then you should be able to restore a backup of the partitions on the array to a single disk, an new RAID 10 array or for that matter a RAID 5 array without issue.