I have a server with an Asus mother board running 2008 on two SAS drives in RAID 1 via a PIKE 1068E card on the motherboard in the specific slot. The PIKE card is failing and seems to be killing any new SAS drives I have installed in the seconday slot. I am trying to instal a new PIKE 2008 card. I have backed up the entire server using the backup snap in module to an external USB hard drive. The backup drive is 500gb, and the backup image is about 326gb. The RAID image itself is 558gb. The first time I tried to restore using the MS protocol, I got the following message:
System image restore failed. The disk set as active in BIOS is too small to recover the original system disk. Replace the disk with a larger one and retry the operation (0x80042407)"
I then shrunk the C: image to 556gb, reformatted the backup drive, and backup up the new image. I am still am running into the same problem. Is there something else I have to do?
