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Hi

I have 2 Terabyte drives that I want to set up as RAID 0. Should I just make an image of the Raided drives (C:) If I make the image onto a separate (non raided) internal drive will that work ?

If I wanted to resore the image of the RAIDED drives onto a single drive again would that still work ?

Thanks

Adrian

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If this is your system drive, then the problem you have to work around is that in one case the drive is set up to run the drivers for the harddrive as RAID and in the other, not. So if you're set up for RAID, backup and then restore to nonraid, the nonraid will try to boot up with, probably, the wrong driver -- and same thing if going the other way.

You could use windows sysprep to work around this, or the more expensive versions of ATI have something called universal restore to strip this machine depepndenet stuff and gie you some more flex8ibility.

Thankyou for your reply Scott.

I have my system set up as raid 0 ( 2 x terabyte Drives) and have been making a True image of the whole drive onto a separate (not raided) internal SATA drive. I am assuming that if I needed to restore the image to the drives for any reason, then this will be a straightforward process with the raided drives as it was with just one drive.

Prior to setting up a raid system:

I did have an image on USB drive of a single system, and when I set up the new array I tried to resore the old (single) image onto the new raides drives, This did not work and I had to install from scratch.

Hopefully restoring an image of a raided system onto a raided system will work should I need it in future.

I assume though, that the image would need to be opn a separate drive - not on a Secure Zone ?

The problem you had was because the installed drivers were wrong (non-RAID drivers were installed). Restoring the image of the RAID setup back to the RAID setup should be fine, regardless of the source (USB drive, internal drive, SZ, etc.). This assumes that TI can see and work with all involved drives properly.

I've backed up from and rstored to a RAID1 set for years using ATI versions 7, 8, 9, 10 and 2009. So long as the system being restored to requires the same drivers and the system backed up from, then the drive time is more or less invisible, and not a concern.

If backing up nonsystem files, it matters even less; so long as ATI can see the hdisks correctly, it can back up and restore files without regard for RAID or nonRAID.

Of course, it's critical to do a backup and then a restore, or at least go through all the steps of a resotre except for the final "PROCEED" to ensure that the BOOTCD will be able to see your hdisks to restore.