OT: RAID and Acronis True Image Home 11: kernel.dat initrd=ramdisk.dat ramdisk_size=60000 nousb2 quiet

This was just TOO funny.

My HP Pavilion d4995t is a quad-core 2.4 GHz with 3 GB of DDR2-667MHz dual-channel SDRAM. (Will be changed to 8GB DDR2-800MHz once I have things settled)

RAID 1 consisting of 2 SATA II Seagate 500GB 16MB cache 3.0 Gb/s.

2 external USB 2.0 Seagate FreeAgent 500GB 8MB cache.

I decided to try a test restore using the external USB drive. TrueImage 11 Home told me 6 hours for validating the 7GB image BEFORE restoring. So I think, that MUST be an error, let's just let it run, and allow the countdown clock to correct itself.

Well, an hour later, it's 5 hours left to go, so I guess the countdown was accurate ;-) SO, I decide to validate within Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

4 min for the 3rd internal 500GB 16MB 3.0Gb/s drive 8 min for the external 500GB.

Go back, and try restore using 3rd internal HD.

6 minutes for validation.

I dunno, 6 min versus 6 hours JUST for the validation phase. Tough decision on whether to use internal or external for restore ;-)

Bob

I was given a link to download the ISOLINUX boot CD for True Image. Booting from that makes the RAID volume available, but my USB externals are not. I was going to just live with having a 3rd internal hard drive on which to keep images. But, doing the following makes RAID AND USB drives visible:

Hello Bob,

Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

- Boot the computer from Acronis bootable rescue CD (with ISOLINUX loader)

- Hit the ESC key when ISOLINUX word appears. (This should happen before loading ramdisk.dat and kernel.dat).

- You will get the boot: prompt. In the prompt type all the necessary parameters as shown below:

kernel.dat initrd=ramdisk.dat ramdisk_size`000 nousb2 quiet

We are always at your service should you have any further questions.

Thank you.