Hey all,

I recently decided to install an SSD as my primary boot disc, but rather than reinstall windows, download all the SP's and updates and all the other guff, I thought I'd be smart and use Acronis to take an image of my C: volume, slap it onto my SSD and voila, i'd be up and running.

How naive...

it seems that Acronis home edition decided to get funky with my RAID setup, and I suspect that in typical male fashion and not RTFM, it doesn't support RAID.

Now the PC still boots, but my RAID status in BIOS, after first saying 'degraded', is now stuck on 'Rebuild'. I suspect the degrade happened because of Acronis's initial meddling, but after trying a few things to right the situation, I am now stuck.

I've tried running CHKDSK /F in elevated mode, which correctly and now reports no errors. I've also run a full disk defrag which was also recommended somewhere online.

Anyone else had dealings with RAID 5 that can help shed some light?

It's preventing me from playing!!

System is Win 7 64 bit running on
Gigabyte P45 UD3R Mobo (intel ICH9 Raid controller)
3 x Samsung 1TB discs

Cheers, 3F.

I'm not familiar with Acronis but when you installed the SSD wouldn't the disk id's have changed so the Raid software will be looking for the raid info on the wrong disks?

I didn't install the SSD before trying to take the Acronis image.

Cheers for the reply by the way

Windows auto-repaired the RAID volume, but its a silent operation annoyingly so you've got no clue or confirmation that it's happening until the magic day you reboot and BIOS tells you that RAID status is Normal as opposed to 'Rebuild'.

The issue, now I've read up on it is that the Acronis operating system that loads from the CD does not neccesarily have the drivers for RAID arrays preloaded. Get this you have to load the drivers using a FLOPPY DISK! I haven't had a FDD drive in the last three PC's I've had FFS!

Once Acronis has the RAID drivers it looks at the whole volume rather than the disks as individuals and then you can start to take an image.

What's confusing is that the Acronis website states that the most popular hardware raid controllers are supported by Default, and I'm using the Intel ICH10 internal RAID controller found on most decent motherboards. Shocked that it's not supported.

I lost patience with it in the end and just installed Windows 7 afresh on the SSD.