Recreate IRST Raid 1 boot drive - Fails to boot

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Hi There,

Recently purchased TI and have been attempting to use it to recreate an IRST Raid 1 pair of SSD drives.
The original configuration was:

2 x Corsair Neutron GTX 480Gb SSDs on an Austs Rampage IV motherboard.

An unintended bios reset lost the raid configuration and I ended up with 2 standalone drives which I have been using one of for a couple of months. I planned to:
1. Make an image to my NAS - Qnap QNAP TS-669 Pro
2. Install two new SSDs
3. Recreate Raid 1 using IRST in the bios.
4. Load the image back into the now raid pair
5. Live a happy life knowing I had a backup....

Reality was:
1a. Make an image to my NAS - First problem I have a QNP NAS which doesnt seem to conform to the arbitrary spec that Acronis has used to define a NAS. The manual says: If you decide to use an external hard drive, NAS, NDAS, etc., you will need to check whether Acronis True Image 2014 detects the selected backup storage. You need to check this both in Windows and when booted from the rescue media. Naturally my NAS was not accessible. Solution use FTP as it has an FTP host on it.

1b. Make an image to my NAS - So I ended up having to create my image using FTP, which worked out ok for the create, but when I attempted to access the drive from Acronis bootable CD for the restore, the directroy was not visible for some reason. When I re-installed my SSD and rebooted and accessed the NAS via FTP under Windows 8, everything was visible. So I guess that means that there is some FTP problem with the TI software....

1c. Make an image to my 2GB USB drive - The create worked ok, but every time I attempted to restore the drive, I ended up with errors during the course of the reconstruction. It would be good if you could choose where the log files are created so that you dont loose them every time you reboot...

1d. Make an image to my internal drive. I eventually made a copy on a separate internal drive. This was a success for the create, and didnt cause issues when I did the restore. The first couple of attempts at restoring this image were a failure with index errors every time I tried to restore. Usually right at the end of the process. Eventually I managed to make an image that indicated success on the end of the restore.

I did steps 2, 3 and 4 about 20 times trying to resolve the above issues and get a configuration that worked. Each time I had to back out. It would be nice to be able to do some sort of non destructive test before changing configuration so that you can have confidence before changing your hardware over...

I never got to 5, as the restored image at the end of all of this wouldnt boot successfully. It started booting (which I guess means the MBR is ok) but after a while the Windows 8.1 startup would drop a message for a second indicating it had a nondescript problem and then reboot.

5. Live a happy life knowing I had a backup.... Not happening.......

At this stage I have spent about 20 hours on it and I am back where I started with my original SSD and no certainty that I can even make a duplicate of that.

HELP.....

Paul

OS Name Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
Version 6.3.9600 Build 9600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SPEEDY
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU SKU
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3960X CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3302 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 4804, 12/30/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale Australia
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.3.9600.17031"
Username speedy\SPEEDY\Paul
Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 31.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 25.6 GB
Total Virtual Memory 63.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 55.6 GB
Page File Space 32.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

lun 02/06/2014 - 03:36
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When you restore the image, use the recovery CD. The first question is: does the recovery CD see your RAID 1 setup as a single volume or as 2 separate disks?

lun 02/06/2014 - 05:36
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