Impossible? Non-RAID to RAID restore and system upgrade, Please help!

I have a question regarding how to restore a backup image from a non-RAID system to a RAID enabled system. (The server configuration is the same, but with an add-on RAID card).

Windows 2000 won't even allow me to boot, blue screen after restart coz it can't find the raid driver, and worst there is no way for me to add the Raid driver, not even bootable to safe mode.

Anyone?


Also, I've a server at home, it's an old Dual PIII, I want to upgrade to a Dual Xeon and maintain all the OS (Windows 2000), Data. I will use Acronis True Image Server 8.0 to do this.

Do I use systemprep from MS before the creating the backup image? and then just make a restore to the new Dual Xeon and all the new hardware will be changed automatically? like mb chipsets, scsi drivers, display cards, LAN cards? Is this how it works?

Many thanks.

 

 

 

 

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