Alien respawn questions

I know alien respawn is not the preffered method of reinstall. I normally do a clean install, however I like the option of using it in case I need to get the computer back up and running asap, like if it died when I was on vacation.

That being said, will the disks/USB respawn options make a new respawn partition on a a new RAID 0 setup I'm doing? Or does it ONLY recover the windows partition? I'm trying to find out if I have to do a partition clone to get the recovery partition back on the new drives or if I can just use the disks I made.

 

Was your original config raid 0? I know that on the older version of respawn (2.0 before the usb option) wouldnt go from non raid to raid since using raid needs windows drivers that the original image didnt have.
I ordered with non raid but want to go raid now. Can I use respawn to restore a non raid image with the usb drive to a now raid 0 setup?
Respawn 9.4.48.

 

It was a non-RAID setup, and I’m switching to a RAID 0.

I now have the respawn partition in the RAID 0 setup, and I did a fresh install on the next partition since respawn didn’t work (maybe because of lack of RAID drivers like you said). I did have some difficulty getting this far and I won’t know if it works or not until tonight and do some testing. I need to try the fix to connect the windows install to the respawn and see if it actually works. I have a feeling it will do the same thing it did before, meaning not boot up after respawn is run, because of the lack of RAID drivers.

If I can’t get it working I will just blow it all away and start from scratch again without the respawn. I can’t stand wasting the 15GB if I can’t use it.

 

I wonder if we can do a clean install and download respawn and create a new recovery media? I'm not that worried about the partition, as I am just as happy using usb.

 

I’d be happy with any of the three (disk, USB or partition). If I don’t find a magic cure to get it working with RAID 0 I’m going to blow everything away, change my stripe size and do another clean install. I will make a copy of my windows disk and an updated driver disk (to carry with me at all times) and just do it the long way if I ever have a failure and need to reinstall at an un-opportune time. It hasn’t happened to me in years, but I like being prepared. The recovery partition was a nice “if I have to” option that was nice to have. Installing the OS, then drivers, reboot, more drivers, reboot, updates, reboot, etc gets old really fast if you just need a working computer fast.

 

I use acronis disk image to create a single file mirror of a fresh installation with drivers, restoring takes a couple of clicks and some 15 minutes of HD Activity