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Restoring Image seemed to change disk usage over the multiple disks that I restored to?

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I wanted a reliable image backup software to backup my rather unique drive setup (well perhaps not that unique), 1 standalone SSD drive as a main system disk and 2 x 1TB WDD drives in RAID0 config as a data disk. I purchased True Image 2013 as I know it supports RAID format and gave an image backup a go. I then tried to restore to see if it worked and although it did, I noticed something strange. My free space v used spaced had gone up drastically on the SSD, and had decreased by some bit on the RAID0 disk, almost as though the image restore had changed the location of some data. The difference was quite a bit but for the life of me I could not see any files out of place. Generally a clean Windows 7 install on the SSD with various other bits of software leaves me around 178GB free of 223GB. After restoring my image, it told me my my free space on the SSD was just over 204GB! The difference seemed to have magically transferred to the RAID0 data disk! But as I say I could not see anything out of place!!! Also everything seemed to work just fine! What is happening????? I also sadly notice the Acronis recovery disk does not recognise my RAID controller on my x79 sabertooth unfortunately. I really like this software but before I come to trust it, I want to know why on earth data seems to be shuffled off my SSD upon a system image restore!

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Could be that you lost the shadow copies on your system disk created by system protection. Could be that you didn't restore some hidden partition...

If the recovery CD doesn't see your RAID, you should consider buying the Plus Pack and createa WinPE-based recovery disk.