If I had known how difficult this was ahead of time I'd never have explored it.
I have a K8V SE Deluxe motherboard with 2 HDs in a 2x0 array on the Promise controller. I'm at a point where I want to "clean the cruft" so to speak, so I want to reformat the array, reinstall Windows, get drivers and basic apps on, and image it.
In the past, Ghost would do this just fine. However, Ghost 2003 did not recognize the drive when I booted with it (doesn't surprise me: I don't know of any Promise 378 drivers for DOS). I bought Norton Ghost 9, which is essentially PowerQuest's DriveImage, and tried to boot from that. In this case, I was able to hit F6 during boot and specify RAID drivers. Ghost 9 (oddly) said the drivers were already in place (odd, considering Ghost 9 officially doesn't support RAID). When I got into the environment, the array was undetectable. I tried both the drivers "already on the CD" and my own on a floppy which I KNOW work during the Windows XP install.
I also tried Acronis TrueImage 8. This is still up in the air, as the boot environment freezes. I've been told the latest build of the program has proper support for my RAID controller, but it isn't actually available from their site. You have to request it. Wonderful.
Has anyone been able to find a decent drive imaging program that actually works with RAID? Plenty can read the RAID from within Windows, but I've found none that can see it with their boot disks. This is vital, as I want a system where, if something gets screwed up, I can drop a CD in at boot and bring it back to my default (just like my old system under Ghost).
I have a K8V SE Deluxe motherboard with 2 HDs in a 2x0 array on the Promise controller. I'm at a point where I want to "clean the cruft" so to speak, so I want to reformat the array, reinstall Windows, get drivers and basic apps on, and image it.
In the past, Ghost would do this just fine. However, Ghost 2003 did not recognize the drive when I booted with it (doesn't surprise me: I don't know of any Promise 378 drivers for DOS). I bought Norton Ghost 9, which is essentially PowerQuest's DriveImage, and tried to boot from that. In this case, I was able to hit F6 during boot and specify RAID drivers. Ghost 9 (oddly) said the drivers were already in place (odd, considering Ghost 9 officially doesn't support RAID). When I got into the environment, the array was undetectable. I tried both the drivers "already on the CD" and my own on a floppy which I KNOW work during the Windows XP install.
I also tried Acronis TrueImage 8. This is still up in the air, as the boot environment freezes. I've been told the latest build of the program has proper support for my RAID controller, but it isn't actually available from their site. You have to request it. Wonderful.
Has anyone been able to find a decent drive imaging program that actually works with RAID? Plenty can read the RAID from within Windows, but I've found none that can see it with their boot disks. This is vital, as I want a system where, if something gets screwed up, I can drop a CD in at boot and bring it back to my default (just like my old system under Ghost).