When setting up my new system I wanted to set up a RAID 0 array, only to see if I would like it but I had a problem. One of my drives was a little older and was not showing up in the BIOS nor allowing me to install windows on it as a striping RAID disk. Assuming I could go ahead and install the OS, image it, and later put it on the RAID disk. I went ahead.
A few days later I was able to get the other drive working by updating the firmware and formatting now the BIOS did see the drive and I was able to create the RAID array.
Using Acronis 2012 I tried to restore the OS that I had backed up, but Acronis did not even see the RAID array and gave me no option to re-install anywhere but my backup HDD.
What did I do wrong? Is Acronis 2012 a flawed software, why did it not see my RAID array? Is it impossible to install an image to a RAID disk after being on a single drive?
FYI, when I originally installed the OS, it was set up as RAID in the BIOS, I was hoping that would avoid a possible conflict with the image.
System Specs
i7 4770K
MSI Z87 MPower Max
16GB Ripjaws Z 2133
2 x OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
2 x MSI GTX670
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
A few days later I was able to get the other drive working by updating the firmware and formatting now the BIOS did see the drive and I was able to create the RAID array.
Using Acronis 2012 I tried to restore the OS that I had backed up, but Acronis did not even see the RAID array and gave me no option to re-install anywhere but my backup HDD.
What did I do wrong? Is Acronis 2012 a flawed software, why did it not see my RAID array? Is it impossible to install an image to a RAID disk after being on a single drive?
FYI, when I originally installed the OS, it was set up as RAID in the BIOS, I was hoping that would avoid a possible conflict with the image.
System Specs
i7 4770K
MSI Z87 MPower Max
16GB Ripjaws Z 2133
2 x OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
2 x MSI GTX670
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
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