Disk Imaging SATA RAID 0

[Airbrushguy]

Does anybody here have an opinion/// advice on how I would go about "ghosting" or imaging a SATA RAID 0 OS setup. I am familiar with norton's ghost, but I can't seem to find info as to whether it works with SATA Drives or RAID 0 arrays.. are there any programs that can do this..?
Thanks to all in advance!!

 

[Cheetah8799]

as far as i know, it can't be done. You'd have to get some DOS drivers for your boot disk to recognize the RAID 0 as a drive for Ghost to be able to see it.

 

[Airbrushguy]

Cheetah - But if the drives are already set up in a RAID 0 Array, doesn't that mean windows recognizes the Raid Drivers...? My thinking is, if the BIOS has already configured the RAID 0 array, then won't windows see it as a normal hard disk to image to..? I've already got the OS and drivers installed with all the settings the way I like.. What I'm hoping to figure out , is,.. if I was to ghost or image now, would that leave the RAID array intact..? This is confusing... Acronis True Image claims it can image to RAID, (and SCSI) (http://www.acronis.com/product...features-imaging.html) but I could'nt find anything about SATA there..

 

[Airbrushguy]

To All- I found a way to do it using Norton Ghost 2003,, you have to burn to a bootable CD or DVD though... Cheetah, thanks for your help!!

 

[jleon]

I'm also trying to do the same thing. How do I run ghost when I do not have a floppy drive? Also, how do burn it to a bootable cd/dvd?

thanks in advance!

 

[eydolic]

The simplest way to do this is going to be to boot into an emulated windows environment off of a CD (like ERD Commander) and load your raid drivers and then directly ghost the drives over to the additional target drive. The raid drives have to be on the array to be ghosted, obviously. I suppose that this can also be done while fully booted to windows, although it is probably going to be less stable since the boot drive is also going to be one of the drives being ghosted.

 

[eydolic]

For my bootable CD's I use a Win98 boot disk image as a boot rom in Nero, and then add whatever files I need to the disk.