ghost of raid array

[K. Kalihi]

I am running XP Pro on an Athlon system with a 2-drive
raid0 array. I have a third drive in a removable bay
that I'd like to use as a backup in case one of the raid
drives goes bad. The plan is to do periodic ghost clones
of the raid array onto the removable drive and if the
array goes bad I'd just pop in the removable and run off
of that until I get the array restored.

here's the problem: I can use ghost to clone the system
partition of the raid array onto the removable but when I
test it by disconnecting the raid drives and trying to
boot off of the removable it gets stuck on the XP welcome
screen and the user icons don't appear. any idea what is
preventing XP from booting off of this backup drive and
how to fix this?

[Michael A. McKenney]

It will not work for several reasons.

Boot.ini addressing will be wrong, you would have to change it. XP is
looking for the RAID array and not a single drive.

Use the third drive as a backup for your data. I would then change to RAID
1 instead of RAID 0. RAID 0 has not fault tolerance and if one of the
drives fail, you are SOL.

"K. Kalihi" > wrote in message
...
> I am running XP Pro on an Athlon system with a 2-drive
> raid0 array. I have a third drive in a removable bay
> that I'd like to use as a backup in case one of the raid
> drives goes bad. The plan is to do periodic ghost clones
> of the raid array onto the removable drive and if the
> array goes bad I'd just pop in the removable and run off
> of that until I get the array restored.
>
> here's the problem: I can use ghost to clone the system
> partition of the raid array onto the removable but when I
> test it by disconnecting the raid drives and trying to
> boot off of the removable it gets stuck on the XP welcome
> screen and the user icons don't appear. any idea what is
> preventing XP from booting off of this backup drive and
> how to fix this?

[Paul]

" Michael A. McKenney" > wrote in message
...
> It will not work for several reasons.
>
> Boot.ini addressing will be wrong, you would have to change it. XP is
> looking for the RAID array and not a single drive.
>
> Use the third drive as a backup for your data. I would then change to RAID
> 1 instead of RAID 0. RAID 0 has not fault tolerance and if one of the
> drives fail, you are SOL.

To go along with this response...You don't need to boot to the third drive to
check out the contents. Ghost has a GUI based, explorer style interface that
will allow you to open and look at every file in the backup.

You can also do a verify after the backup is completed to see if the data was
properly backed up.

Paul

>
> "K. Kalihi" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I am running XP Pro on an Athlon system with a 2-drive
> > raid0 array. I have a third drive in a removable bay
> > that I'd like to use as a backup in case one of the raid
> > drives goes bad. The plan is to do periodic ghost clones
> > of the raid array onto the removable drive and if the
> > array goes bad I'd just pop in the removable and run off
> > of that until I get the array restored.
> >
> > here's the problem: I can use ghost to clone the system
> > partition of the raid array onto the removable but when I
> > test it by disconnecting the raid drives and trying to
> > boot off of the removable it gets stuck on the XP welcome
> > screen and the user icons don't appear. any idea what is
> > preventing XP from booting off of this backup drive and
> > how to fix this?
>
>

[Kerry]

thanks for the responses. I finally got it working but had to mess around
with XP's hardware configuration. now I feel safer that I can boot up my
backup drive since I have twice the chance of failure with my raid0 setup.

"K. Kalihi" > wrote in message
...
> I am running XP Pro on an Athlon system with a 2-drive
> raid0 array. I have a third drive in a removable bay
> that I'd like to use as a backup in case one of the raid
> drives goes bad. The plan is to do periodic ghost clones
> of the raid array onto the removable drive and if the
> array goes bad I'd just pop in the removable and run off
> of that until I get the array restored.
>
> here's the problem: I can use ghost to clone the system
> partition of the raid array onto the removable but when I
> test it by disconnecting the raid drives and trying to
> boot off of the removable it gets stuck on the XP welcome
> screen and the user icons don't appear. any idea what is
> preventing XP from booting off of this backup drive and
> how to fix this?