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Having trouble transferring a Win 7 system to new RAID hardrives

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My Dell desktop HD crashed a couple of days ago taking with it no data, but lots and lots of installed software. Fortunately the data is all on servers. I spent the better part of a half day trying to revive the damaged drive and was successful in getting it operational again. But, once failed, no longer trusted, so I set about to replace that one drive with a pair of drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The MB supports that and the new drives installed without issues.

Before swapping drives I used TI 2014 Premium to clone the original to a Seagate USB portable drive. Then the drive swap, RAID initialized and tried to get the image copied back to the new RAID. No luck. I first tried to see if the Segate image would boot. No. Then I tried an Acronis bootable CD made from the 2014 software. From that I tried cloning back from the Seagate to the RAID. No luck there either. The system seems to copy back, but won't then boot from the RAID.

What am I doing wrong? Or, better put, what's the best way to accomplish the objective which is, simply, To get a working Win 7 OS HD with installed software successfully transferred over to a new RAID array on the same system?

Thanks.

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I suspect your problem is that you lack the appropriate raid driver for the array while attempting to restore the image. You will in all likelihood need to create either a WinPE or MustangPE boot disk and add the raid driver to that disk to get things working. You will need the Premium version of ATI to accomplish the WinPE or MustangPE boot disk task. Here are some links:

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATIH2014/#8763.html

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/54130