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Backing up and restoring from a Hybrid Virtual Drive

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First, I am knowledgeable, but not an expert in this area. I just installed the Highpoint RocketHybrid PCI-E card in my Intel DP35DP MB. It actually works! This card connects to a SSD and a mechanical HDD, creating a bootable virtual hybrid drive. My SSD is only used as a caching drive; no data is deleted or moved away from the HDD. Windows sees this array as a single hard disk. Using a SSD for caching a HDD is also a new feature on the Intel Z68 MB.

I would like to know if I can use TI2012 to make images and restore them from this virtual drive. Since the HDD contains all the data, and is most likely to fail, I would foresee restoring to a single HDD (connected to the MB) without the SSD for simplicity. I could then reconstruct the virtual drive later after a successful recovery, if I chose to. Can TI2012 restore this virtual drive image back to a single bootable system HDD (on a MB controller)? Would I need to do anything special during restore? Would the redundant data on the SSD muck things up?

Thanks,

Sam Golden

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The only way to know is to try it. or at a minimum, make a backup and go through all the steps of a restore up to but not including the final PRoceed. This will at least assure that you can backup and and that whenyou want to restore, ati can see all of your hdisks.