A question with a twist..... Can this be done?

Joeteck · Oct 8, 2007

I've never tried this, but can you ghost to a RAID 0 array?

I have my OS on a single 80 gig drive.

Can I ghost from my 80 gig to two 80 gigers in RAID 0?

And if so, what version of ghost can do it?

aja · Oct 8, 2007

"Altho not officially supported, Ghost should work fine with any RAID controller that allows you to access the drives from DOS"

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1a.htm

Joeteck · Oct 8, 2007

So the answer is no......... Darn it! I guess I have to re-install the OS.

Unless I can find DOS drivers for th ICH9R............ Yeah I thought so.... Nadda... lol

aja · Oct 8, 2007

I would contact www.bootdisk.com and ask them for advice

I just did a search on about five different driver sites and google and found peanuts...

CGR · Oct 8, 2007

The raid boots up at post so in theory the parition is already created. Ghost should see it.

When I ghost our servers I do not need to have any kind of raid driver.

Just make a ghost boot disk with your network ndis driver. That all you need.

Joeteck · Oct 8, 2007

CGR said:
The raid boots up at post so in theory the parition is already created. Ghost should see it.

When I ghost our servers I do not need to have any kind of raid driver.

Just make a ghost boot disk with your network ndis driver. That all you need.

When did the ICH9R come into play? Will Ghost 2003 see it?

aja · Oct 8, 2007

Joeteck said:
When did the ICH9R come into play? Will Ghost 2003 see it?

That's true, the RAID will load BEFORE ghost starts

CGR · Oct 8, 2007

Joeteck said:
When did the ICH9R come into play? Will Ghost 2003 see it?

It should because the raid partition was formed before the ghost boot disk loaded.

You just need to find an ndis driver for your nic and you should be able to load the image.

You will need to tell ghost where the image is as well. So you must have the drive with the image online in some fashion.

Joeteck · Oct 8, 2007

CGR said:
It should because the raid partition was formed before the ghost boot disk loaded.

You just need to find an ndis driver for your nic and you should be able to load the image.

You will need to tell ghost where the image is as well. So you must have the drive with the image online in some fashion.

Everything is local. No need for NIC drivers

bchur83 · Oct 8, 2007

It should be able to be done, but I doubt Windows will load once you finish. You could try a repair install of Windows after Ghosting. The main problem is that once you Ghost it, Windows will not know what drivers to load for the Raid array.

Joeteck · Oct 8, 2007

bchur83 said:
It should be able to be done, but I doubt Windows will load once you finish. You could try a repair install of Windows after Ghosting. The main problem is that once you Ghost it, Windows will not know what drivers to load for the Raid array.

Well, I just did a test on the ICH7R, and it saw it, which is a good thing.

I think it should not have a problem booting after the ghost has completed, as I have two RAID 0 arrays and the system already knows of the driver.

for my test, I'll be ghosting from two 80's to two 150 gig raptors in RAID 0...

The real system, will be a single 80 to two 80's in RAID 0, my OS already knows of the driver for the 4 x 250's... on the ICH9R controller.

I have two RAID 0's on the ICHxR controller

Joeteck · Oct 8, 2007

Worked flawlessly... I booted to the 150gigers in RAID 0... Nice!!

aja · Oct 8, 2007

Joeteck said:
Worked flawlessly... I booted to the 150gigers in RAID 0... Nice!!

COOL!

congrats, good to know it worked out for you...

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