Hello - If anyone can give me advice with this problem please let me know. The story is a bit strange. . .
PC running Vista 64, primary C drive is 2 x 320GB drives in a RAID 1 configuration. My motherboard, Asus Commando has an Intel ICH8R on board RAID controller. I have never had problems with the system.
Recently I noticed at bootup that one of the disk status was "Error Occurred". So I changed that disk to non-RAID and then rebuilt the array. When it happened a second time I thought "OK - time to replace the disk - but why not get 2 larger drives instead?"
I connected an extra drive to the internal controller and successfully ghosted the C drive image to the extra drive.
Then I replaced both 320GB internal RAID drives with 1TB drives. I created the RAID 1 array in the RAID boot manager.
Then I booted the Ghost recovery disk and restored the image back to the new array. I didn't expect the horrible result. The computer took about 30 minutes to load the desktop, and then when it finally came up there were lots of icons missing, I was getting lots of errors, and then I just ended up shutting it down. During the startup process there seemed to be a significant amount of time when the HDD indicator light was barely flashing, I tried the restore again and got the same result. I tried the Vista recovery disk and no errors were found.
For kicks this morning I tried the restore again, but then ran the Vista recovery before allowing the system to load Windows. Unfortunately I went away from the PC so I didn't see what happened, but when I returned in about 15 minutes the PC was at the logon screen. I entered my password and the system looked perfect. Problem is when I tried to reboot I was left again with the 30 minute startup problem and the bad desktop.
And here's the kicker:
I put the two original 320GB disks back in the system and had the exact same slow30 minute load and messed up desktop.
I didn't have any problems like this before running Ghost. What could be going on??????
Any suggestions???
NM