Acronis and Raid?

I'm running hardware raid using the chipset on my MB as opposed to a dedicated raid card.

How does Acronis handle this for a restore? Any info that I should be aware of?

Do I need the drivers for the MB in order for Acronis to perform the recovery?

 

You'll need to boot to the TI CD and see if TI correctly sees your RAID setup as a single drive. If it shows as multiple drives, TI isn't correctly detecting/supporting the RAID setup.

The drivers are built into TI for the Full and Safe Mode versions. If you need to use different drivers, you'll have to contact Acronis Support and request a custom build or create a WinPE CD (like MustangPE) that includes the Windows drivers.

 

So I need to create a TI Recovery CD, and then boot to it.

Do I need to do anything else, or will it tell me on the boot screen if it can see my raided drives or not?

 

Just boot the CD, start TI and go through the backup wizard until you get to where you select the drives/partitions to backup. You will know from the information on that screen what TI sees.

 

- As long as I go no futher than that screen, it won't actually write anything to my hard drive, correct?

 

It won't make any changes until you get to the end of the wizard (the Summary screen) and do the final proceed. Until then, you can cancel out or backup through the wizard as needed.

 

Hello BobbyDouglas,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis True Image

In case Acronis bootable disc can’t see the RAID you can create BartPE bootable disc by means of BartPE plug-in with the program. Uou can download plugin from your account. If some drivers are not recognized by Acronis True Image you may use BartPE bootable disc. It is possible to add any storage drivers at startup in the same manner as when installing Windows on the hard drive (by pressing F6 and inserting diskette with drivers).

To create BartPE bootable disc with the Acronis True Image plug-in you should download PE builder from the following link

See also this article “Creating BartPE Media with Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0”, use this link.

For additional information about BartPE, please click the following link

Best regards,
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Dmitry Nikolaev