Making bootable Clone for RAID-1 Hard Drive
Hello,
I am using the version of Acronis that is available for Western Digital hard drive users.
I have two hard drives in my desktop computer in the RAID-1 format to protect against a hard drive failure. I have been cloning on a regular basis.
I tried to find out if my efforts were worthwhile by attempting to boot the cloned hard drive in my computer. It would not boot. I know that the files were cloned since I could access them when I had the drive on a USB type connection.
Is there anyway that I can get it to boot? I tried the Acronis True Image Boot up disk without any success.
Thanks for the help.
Please clarify what you mean when you state: "I have been cloning on a regular basis." ? At the end of every month I run the Aronis cloning funcion to my target drive.
A clone is an identical copy of one disk drive to another, but you also state that you "have two hard drives in my desktop computer in the RAID-1 format" that is not a valid source for performing a clone operation. What it had been doing is making an identical copy (as far as I can tell) of the disks but without the capability of being able to be booted.
See KB document: 1540: Difference between Backup and Disk Clone for a description of the difference between the methods offered by ATIH.
You can create backup images of your RAID-1 set of disk drives as if these were a single disk. That backup image could be restored back to the same RAID set or to a different single disk drive. See KB document: 11681: Acronis True Image: RAID Support Would this be bootable?
When you attempted to boot the cloned hard drive in your computer, how did you try to do this? Did you disconnect the existing RAID-1 drives and connect to the connector that was used by one of those drives? I tried using the USB device, then I tried the method that you had just stated.
See KB document: 48386: Acronis True Image 2015: Cloning Disks for a description of how cloning is performed though I suspect that you will need to use Backup and Recovery instead of cloning. I shall look at the documents that you referenced at a later date. Thanks for your support.
Please clarify what you mean when you state: "I have been cloning on a regular basis." ? At the end of every month I run the Aronis cloning funcion to my target drive.
A clone is an identical copy of one disk drive to another, but you also state that you "have two hard drives in my desktop computer in the RAID-1 format" that is not a valid source for performing a clone operation. What it had been doing is making an identical copy (as far as I can tell) of the disks but without the capability of being able to be booted.
See KB document: 1540: Difference between Backup and Disk Clone for a description of the difference between the methods offered by ATIH.
You can create backup images of your RAID-1 set of disk drives as if these were a single disk. That backup image could be restored back to the same RAID set or to a different single disk drive. See KB document: 11681: Acronis True Image: RAID Support Would this be bootable?
When you attempted to boot the cloned hard drive in your computer, how did you try to do this? Did you disconnect the existing RAID-1 drives and connect to the connector that was used by one of those drives? I tried using the USB device, then I tried the method that you had just stated.
See KB document: 48386: Acronis True Image 2015: Cloning Disks for a description of how cloning is performed though I suspect that you will need to use Backup and Recovery instead of cloning. I shall look at the documents that you referenced at a later date. Thanks for your support.
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