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Norsk - 28 Jan 2008 20:07 GMT

I made a mistake and created a RAID0 of my 2 drives. Since the drives were
not the same size I lost disk space on the larger one.
Can I make a full system backup, remove the RAID0 defenitions from the
drives in BOIS and do a full system restore and that way get rid of the
RAID0, or will the restore process require RAID0 again?
Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Tom Ferguson - 29 Jan 2008 02:15 GMT

You can certainly "take down" the RAID and reset the BIOS to recognize each
physical drive. How you would proceed to set the system up again depends on
the type of backup(s) you made. Provide more detail and probably someone can
advise.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

>I made a mistake and created a RAID0 of my 2 drives. Since the drives were
> not the same size I lost disk space on the larger one.
> Can I make a full system backup, remove the RAID0 defenitions from the
> drives in BOIS and do a full system restore and that way get rid of the
> RAID0, or will the restore process require RAID0 again?
> Thanks for any help you can provide.

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David B. - 29 Jan 2008 14:00 GMT

This is definitely possible, I've done it, and the opposite more than once,
what are you using for backup software?

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Norsk - 29 Jan 2008 16:52 GMT

I'm using the backup software that comes with Vista Ultima, Full System
Backup and will use the System CD to get the restore started as described in
the HELP for Full System Restore.

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> This is definitely possible, I've done it, and the opposite more than once,
> what are you using for backup software?
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> > RAID0, or will the restore process require RAID0 again?
> > Thanks for any help you can provide.

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David B. - 29 Jan 2008 18:56 GMT

No experience on how that will work, I've use Ghost and Acronis True Image
successfully.

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> I'm using the backup software that comes with Vista Ultima, Full System
> Backup and will use the System CD to get the restore started as described
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>> > RAID0, or will the restore process require RAID0 again?
>> > Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Patrick - 31 Jan 2008 13:48 GMT

you can but......

if the partition on the raid-0 spans the entire size of the raid-0 combo you
have to shrink the partition the a bit smaller that the size of the disk you
want to restore to.

I found out the ugly way that the restore wants at least as much diskspace
as it had when the backup was made. Even if that amount was not totally
used.

> I made a mistake and created a RAID0 of my 2 drives. Since the drives were
> not the same size I lost disk space on the larger one.
> Can I make a full system backup, remove the RAID0 defenitions from the
> drives in BOIS and do a full system restore and that way get rid of the
> RAID0, or will the restore process require RAID0 again?
> Thanks for any help you can provide.

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David B. - 31 Jan 2008 13:57 GMT

Now that you mention that I remember discovering the same thing when I used
the Vista backup utility once, which is why I no longer use it.

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> you can but......
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> as it had when the backup was made. Even if that amount was not totally
> used.

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