ingvarius
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I have lots of problems with a PCIe sound card, so I am used to installing Windows 7 64 from scratch, and to set up RAID.. :-/ I want to back up my Windows, and use Acronis True Image. I can do this just fine from inside Windows, but when it is time to restore any image, I must boot using Acronis Bootable Media. However, it does not find my RAID drive(s)! I have used RAID0, and the Intel chipset. The Acronis Bootable Media utility is a Linux app as far as I know. Anyhow, here is the message I get:  Do you know what this means? I take this as an indicator that something is wrong. Although there are other disk backup utilities out there. I tried Drive Image, and this apps sees all my four harddisks as sepoarate drives, although they are set up as two RAID0 drives. Any help much appreciated Ingvar
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/11 07:48:14
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Could I recommend that you create a "bootable rescue media" for your Acronis True Image? While there are two versions, I recommend you create the WinPE version. This is the version that installs the CD version of True Image in a Windows environment. I have no experience with your specific issues and cannot guarantee this will solve your problem. But this is the method I discovered and tested to give me full access of all storage drives on the SR-2 in the event of boot failure. I have SSD and HDD but none are in Raid configuration.
The downside of my recommendation is that the WinPE version requires a few more steps to create than the standard version of the rescue media. Also I recalled that I had to download something from Microsoft. But Acronis provides all the necessary information.
Finally, I should add that I am using True Image 2011 with the plus pack. You need to check whether everything I described above is also applicable to your version of True Image.
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/11 07:58:28
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Thanks for this advice! I think this would solve the Acronis problem in particular. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that the error messages I get here indicate a possible source for my main problem: The PCIe sound card making my system freeze after booting into Windows.
So, if anyone know what these messages really means, I would be interested to know. "ddf1: wrong # of devices in RAID set" seems to be a message Linux users get when installing Ubuntu. Acronis Bootable Media is a Linux app (AFAIK) , the error message must mean that something is not quite right with my setup (my BIOS)
Besides of this, the Drive Image app does see my drives. I will try this first, then your suggestion.
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/12 03:03:32
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You need the Plus pack to restore from RAID drives.
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/12 07:41:51
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Thanks mibw was wondering as I'm doing this soon
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/13 03:56:50
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I dropped Acronis. The Plus Pack alone won't do it. You need to download 1 Gb or more from Microsoft (Windows PE) and then do some additional work on you PC, in order to build a bootable DVD (not CD) that will see the RAID drives.
Instead I purchased Norton Ghost, which will do all this out of the box. I have already used it, and it work great, on a bootable CD (not DVD). I now have 3 tools for this, Norton, Acronis and DriveImage. The latter is a light weight tool, it does see my drives, unfortunately it sees my RAID0 setup as two separate physical drives, so it cannot be used in this particular case. So - each tool to each purpose, that's the rule :)
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/13 10:03:39
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/13 19:43:08
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ingvarius
I dropped Acronis. The Plus Pack alone won't do it. You need to download 1 Gb or more from Microsoft (Windows PE) and then do some additional work on you PC, in order to build a bootable DVD (not CD) that will see the RAID drives.
Instead I purchased Norton Ghost, which will do all this out of the box. I have already used it, and it work great, on a bootable CD (not DVD). I now have 3 tools for this, Norton, Acronis and DriveImage. The latter is a light weight tool, it does see my drives, unfortunately it sees my RAID0 setup as two separate physical drives, so it cannot be used in this particular case. So - each tool to each purpose, that's the rule :)
Ingvar
That is odd, Plus Pack worked for me... oh well, I am not a fan of software that presumes RAID = corporate = higher margin customer.
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Re:Acronis True Image cannot find my RAID drives, what did I do wrong?
2011/01/14 04:11:28
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Actually, I did purchase the Plus Pack.
It says:
"Download and install one of the following Windows Automated Installation Kits (AIKs)"
Which mounts to more than 1 Gb of data.
So I bailed out, and got Norton Ghost. Acronis has a 30 days money back warranty, which I will exercise
I cannot understand how the Plus Pack worked for you out of the box, if you used it on a bootable CD/DVD and was working with RAID0 drives.
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