I've got a Dell PET110 that came to me with 2 500GB drives as separate drives, rather then in a RAID 1, like I requested. Unfortunately, I did not realize this until after I had set it up & figured I could just run a backup, create my RAID & restore
from that backup, but keep getting the error message shown in pics included. I'm using an external USB drive for backup & have tried not plugging it in until I'm asked to locate backup, as I've read booting with USB drive attached can cause problems. The
process does see my backup, but once I try to start the restore process, it craps out! I am able to restore the backup to the drives with no problem if I set them back as two separate drives. I'd also like to point out that I am not backing up anything from
the 2nd drive, as I thought it might be confused trying to restore from 2 drives to one. Also, there is plenty of free space on new drives. I had thought about shrinking the original drive before backing up, so it would appear I was going from a smaller drive
to a larger one, but ran out of time & just put everything back as it was. Dell has been no help on this, unless I'd like to pay for a higher support plan. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
