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Bare metal restore from RAID to non-RAID

  • February 2, 2026
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Hi all,

Having major issues with the RAID controller on one of our production computer’s motherboards. I’m trying to test a non-RAID setup to see if that fixes all the crashes we’re experiencing. Are there any special considerations when restoring a backup that was set up on a RAID array to a newly setup non-RAID hard drive? Appreciate any help, thanks!

Best answer by Chris.Childerhose

As long as the restore process can see the disks you should be ok as moving from RAID to non-RAID should in theory work unless it is expecting RAID but that is an underlying thing in the HW not the OS itself.

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Chris.Childerhose
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  • February 2, 2026

As long as the restore process can see the disks you should be ok as moving from RAID to non-RAID should in theory work unless it is expecting RAID but that is an underlying thing in the HW not the OS itself.


coolsport00
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  • February 2, 2026

@BWPanoramas - yeah...agree with Chris on this. Assuming you’re talking about Veeam Agent restores? Restores are done at the filesystem level...not via hardware, so you should be ok.


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  • February 2, 2026

As long as the restore process can see the disks you should be ok as moving from RAID to non-RAID should in theory work unless it is expecting RAID but that is an underlying thing in the HW not the OS itself.

Thanks! I had to manually restore in order to shrink the volume, but it seems to have worked. Thanks!


Chris.Childerhose
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  • February 2, 2026

As long as the restore process can see the disks you should be ok as moving from RAID to non-RAID should in theory work unless it is expecting RAID but that is an underlying thing in the HW not the OS itself.

Thanks! I had to manually restore in order to shrink the volume, but it seems to have worked. Thanks!

Not a problem glad it worked for you.