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Break RAID 5 array and change to single disk system from TI backup image?

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Hey all,

I have been working on a RAID 5 rebuild for a client for the last two days (48 hours for the rebuild process...lol). I wanting to break the RAID configuration, format one hard drive, and hopefully use a backup image I'm creating using TI. I searched here for bit this AM, and did find some related posts, but am hoping for some clearer answers from someone who may have done something like this.

I'm in the process of creating the backup image in TI right now, and my hope is to restore this image to another new drive in the same PC after breaking the RAID config. RAID was done using Intel's Matrix Storage Manager (Windows 7 PC), and my plan is to revert the BIOS to use the standard SATA config rather than RAID.

Does this sound at all logical? Client is tired of the RAID issues (cheap Seagate drives which two already crapped out), and I'm hoping to get them to a single disk system.

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Hello Warren,

Thank you for posting and welcome to the forum. I will definitely assist you.

From my experience with the software I see no issues with this, provided you create a disk backup of your RAID hard drives and then recover them as disks to your regular single disk system. Our software detects RAID drives as regular hard drivers, so I do not see an issue here.

However, since you are moving to a different hard driver controller, you may need to use Acronis Universal Restore.

This is another article that can assist you with Acronis Universal Restore.

You are more than welcome to download and test the trial version of Acronis True Image 2011 Home, create a bootable media and test that it detects the hardware to which you are planning to restore.

If you have additional questions, please let me know.

Thank you.