Ghosting IDE RAID-0 Drives

[jmichna]

I've got twin IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45gb drives in a RAID-0 array (Highpoint onboard controller, EPoX 8K3A+ mobo). The (approx) 85gb is partitioned into C:, D: and E:. I'm running WinXP Pro, NTFS file system on all three partitions. Only C: and D: have meaningful data (E: is used for swap drive and IE Temp files only).

Just purchased an 80gb IDE drive I'm going to add as slave to one of the two IDE controllers (CR-DVD and CD-RW are each a master on their respective IDE controller). The new 80gb drive is for backup purposes only.

I seem to recall that not all ghosting programs were able to handle IDE RAID-0 and/or NTFS, backed up to a non-RAID-0 drive.

Can anyone shed some light on this topic?

Also, I'm looking for recommendations for a decent ghosting program... reasonably priced, or free preferred.

I would put the 80GB IDE drive as Master on one of the IDE controllers and move the CR-DVD and CD-RW to the same channel as Master/Slave.

As for your Ghosting, I've used Ghost to image two 20GB's (RAID0) to one 40GB drive in pretty much the same setup you're describing. It was FAT32, but I don't think w/ the newer version of Ghost you will have problems w/ NTFS. I was using 7.5 Enterprise.

As for the program, I wouldn't settle for anything less than the real deal, Ghost

[Foggy]

What Rick said, I have been ghosting 2 duel boot (win2k ntfs-win98 fat 32) raid 0 systems for for several years and I have my backup drive in a mobile rack mastered with the cdrom and it has never failed.

[jmichna]

How about PowerQuest's "Drive Image"? Any advantages, one over the other, between Symantec Ghost and PQ's Drive Image? They are both around $69US.

[John Prophet]

$69?? For one thing it comes free with most any Biostar board, lol.

OR you can go here (or several other places)http://www.saveateagle.com/symnorsysand.html and get norton system works 2003 for $20 or 2002 for $9. Each one has ghost on it. Im not sure of the differences between ghost 2003 and 2002.

Personally I have heard of lots of people having problems with Drive Image.

Didnt Symantec buy PowerQuest anyway?

JP