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You appear to have had difficulty just getting W7 to install and run on a home brew Raid with 2 off 64 GB SDD's
Suddenly you are wanting to use 2 off 12O GB ??D's.
Are these SSD or HDD ?
Does not computeThe problem I am having with Marcium is I cant get it to load with my raid,
I've tried the drivers, and I get always seem to be missing something..
Your RAID based computer appears to be semi-functional.
It is able to boot and do limited tasks.
Perhaps it is wrongly configured and you need to change some thing.
Your statement in post #465 suggests sufficient functionality to see the image file and to recognise the destination is too small
Your statement in post #468 denies any such functionalityI noticed when trying to restore to a smaller drive it wouldn't let me without also restoring to an additional drive.
Please, work with us here. :)The problem I am having with Marcium is I cant get it to load with my raid
What has changed ?
I do not believe BartPE is capable of shrinking to a smaller HDD
You must use either a WinPE Boot CD or install the WinPE Rescue environment.
XP 32 bit on non-Raid can create a WinPE Boot CD that works on Win7 64 bit non-Raid.
I believe this should always LOAD the CD regardless of whether the main drives are good or bad,
but will not be able to restore an image to broken or miss-configured drives,
and RAID is yet another hurdle.
Are you restoring a 160 GB non-RAID image to a RAID system ?
Please note that I used standard (economy) licensed v4.2 and was unable to restore a partition to my secondary HDD.
Support advised that this version did not deal with DYNAMIC GPT,
but did deal with BASIC GPT and told me how to convert from Dynamic to Basic.
I was happy to accept their advice, made a painless conversion, and all was well
Please inspect
Macrium Reflect Feature Comparison Chart
Personal - Macrium Software
Business - Macrium Software
v5: Identifying Dynamic and GPT disks
You will see that you buy a lot of capability for an enterprise server at $180
and less capability for the cheaper licences.
The standard does not include GPT support.
It DOES however allow me to restore an image to my GPT secondary drive.
GPT means little to me because my motherboard can only boot from MBR.
I have heard that the Free version does not Auto-Validate an image when it is created, and you have to launch validation after image creation is completed.
There are probably other reductions in capability with the free version.
RAID is another complication that may require more capability.
Also Hardware based RAID and Software based RAID may be different animals requiring different capabilities.