At 12:26 PM 19/04/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 09:35 AM 4/19/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
I've got a machine with a screwed up Windows install on a striped
RAID setup (four disks, ranging from 4.3GB to 80GB.) What's the
best way to back this up to another drive so I can recover data
after I reinstall Windows? Ghost shows it as four separate disks,
but in a striped RAID isn't the data spread over all the disks?
What version of Ghost? Are you booting to a floppy? Apparently the
raid drivers aren't being loaded otherwise ghost should see one big
disk so you probably aren't loading ghost via Windows. Have you
tried running Ghost from a BartPe or XpPe disk to see if that ghost
can see only one big disk?
Follow up question. Windows shows the RAIDed drives as four separate
drives, each the size of the physical drive. Acronis shows them as
five separate Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID 0 - I've never used RAID 0 - is
it reasonable to assume that the drives are striped, but that there
is a C: drive that has the Windows and programs on it, and then a D,
E, and F that have data? If this is the case, and all I want to do
is reformat the drive holding Windows and reinstall Windows, then I
assume I just have to figure out which of the drives holds Windows
and make a backup of that drive (in case there is data on it.) Am I right?
T
