How to restore an image of an AHCI HD to two HDs in RAID

[DuX]

Hello everyone!
The title is tricky, but I can't think of how to ask it better at this hour.
The thing is that I have a Windows 7 installation made on an hd connected as AHCI to the motherboard, I have made an image of the entire hd with "acronis trueimage 2012" and I would like to be able to restore the image but this time on two hds connected in raid 0 (I don't know if I explain myself).

I already have the raid configured, and it seems to be fine and even the "acronis" cd recognizes it perfectly (it sees a single disk with double the capacity), to restore the image, but the problem is that that image doesn't have the raid driver that you have to install when you install Windows 7… and the installation doesn't start (blue screen because it doesn't recognize the hard drive).
I could install everything from scratch without any problem (in fact I did it to test) but I try not to have to do everything again and that's why I would like to restore the image I have made and have my system just as I had it with the old hd. It's almost a matter of pride.
I have the driver for the raid on the motherboard cd, that's not a problem.
I would appreciate it if someone knows a way to install those drivers on the old hd (the one with the Windows 7 from which I made the image) and thus I could make a new image that when installed on the raid hd would start.
That's an idea that occurred to me and maybe it's nonsense, so any suggestion is welcome.
Sorry for the long post and thanks

[Born 2 BOFH]

I haven't made images in a while, but I suppose that by running sysprep and forcing hardware detection (in XP it was the PnP option) it should work

[Obione]

Here's a botched proposal: :lol: Check out some tutorials on how to switch to RAID mode. Windows 7 integrates drivers. Mount the image on a disk in AHCI mode, switch to RAID mode, reboot and try to boot to make sure the change is executed, copy the hidden boot and system partition with a bootable CD like Acronis, and to RAID. I don't know if it will work (with boot issues, I've messed up more than once xD). By the way, when you put it in RAID mode, any loose disk is treated as AHCI, right? That's why I have my doubts, I'm mentioning it in case it behaves like IDE-AHCI, I'm not exactly sure what needs to be touched in the OS :nono: But I'm proposing it so it's not :D

[Bm4n]

Another option is that you start with the w7 disk in repair mode, perhaps that will fix the problem, because as Obione says, the drivers for RAID are integrated.

[incrediboy]

try to create an image of the system on another disk, format and configure the raid on the disks you want and then using the windows disk you put that image on the raid.

[DuX]

hello, thanks for the suggestions. I'm quite busy and I'll try to get to it. I'll let you know the result, whether it goes well or not.

[Tassadar]

@DuX:

hello, thanks for the suggestions. I'm quite busy and I'll try to get started on this. I'll let you know the result, whether it goes well or not.

I've been tinkering with this for a while, but I wanted to do just the opposite, recover a RAID 0 from two SSDs to a single mechanical drive.

This is because I have a couple of servers (although with Windows 7) that are automatically backed up with Acronis True Image Home 2010, and I wanted to be able to recover the backups to a normal drive, so in case of hard drive failure, I would be prepared to recover the system as soon as possible.

My biggest enemy in all of this has been the Windows 7 error 0xc000000e (I have it memorized now xD):

Original System:
-Phenom II x6 3800 mhz with 880G chipset motherboard
-2x 128 gb SSD RAID 0
-Integrated VGA (HD 4200)

System where I want to recover:
-Phenom II x4 4 ghz on AMD 970 chipset
-500 gb mechanical hard drive
-ATI 4850 VGA

Finally, in order to recover and for Windows to boot and everything to work properly, I had to recover the image created with Acronis True Image Home 2010 using Acronis Backup and Recovery 11, copying the original MBR from the RAID 0 hard drives and also using "Universal Restore"; in addition, I had to configure the SATA in RAID in the BIOS, even though I was recovering to a SINGLE hard drive (if I set it to AHCI, I would get that Windows error, which cannot be fixed in any of the ways that are supposed to fix it, according to Google results)

Afterwards, I tried recovering to two Seagate 7200.10 in RAID 0 and it also worked without any problems.

I want to make a tutorial with screenshots when I have some time. But if you need help, I'm here.

Anyway, the hardest part of your situation is that since it's the reverse, going from a single drive to RAID, the BIOS on the original system will be in AHCI, and on the RAID to which you want to move it, it obviously has to be in RAID, so you'll get the 0xc000000e Windows error. Although I should mention that thanks to the Universal Restore in Acronis Backup and Recovery 11, you can add the RAID drivers during the image restoration process to the new hard drives, so maybe that will work for you...

Best regards