Ghost Solution Suite

I have been reading on these forums about Ghosting a W2003 Server that has RAID 5.  It is my understanding that the best way to do this is to create a Windows PE disk and use GHOST32.  I am attempting to take a server with 3 80GB drives in a hardware RAID 5 array and upgrade it to 3 160GB drives in a hardware RAID 5 array.  I am hoping to use Windows PE and GHOST 32 to accomplish this.  My question is, is there a way to tell, when running GHOST32, whether or not it's recognizing the RAID?  How should the disks look when I'm selecting my source drive in the Multicast session?  I am running Ghost solution suite 2.0 and using Ghostcast server on a different machine to do the Ghost.  When I booted up last night and selected the source disk it appeared as 1 80 GB drive.  Should I be seeing 3 drives?  If so, can somebody explain to me how to load the RAID driver within Windows PE so that it recognizes my RAID controller?  I have the driver on the Windows PE disk and am aware of the drvload command.  However, when I ran drvload and loaded the .inf for the RAID controller it said the driver was loaded correctly but Ghost32 was still displaying the same hard drive information.  Is there another step I need to do after running drvload?

 

I would really appreciate any help on this since I am going back there tonight to bring down the Ghost I created last night, and I'm expecting it to take 3 hours.  I don't want to waste that time if I'm sure the RAID wasn't recognized when creating the image.

 

Thanks again.

Hi Remmie,

 

Ghost will see the RAID as the one set of disk rather than multiple disks.

It depends on the RAID setup. if you set up a RAID so that it will have one logical disk, ghost will see 1 disk.

so if you have 3 physical disk and use RAID 5, it should see 1 disk.

 

one thing strange is that if you use 3 * 80GB disk with RAID 5, ghost should see 1 * 160GB disk.

you can use diskpart to check whether winpe is using the same RAID setup.

 

I think you can just use drvload with .inf file.

also if you use -dd switch with ghost32, it will generate diagnostic file.

it might contain useful disk information.

 

regards,

James Lee