Disk Image and RAID0

Just got my 7700 and I love it - but I want to keep it in the pristine condition it is not the sluggish porker my other PC has become.

Have any of you guys had any success with taking (and successfully restoring) a RAID0 partition with any of the tools out there like Ghost? I don't really want to go back to installing from scratch if i can help it - would rather get the system nicely set up, then lock away am image.

Ok, some more information:

1. In the support area of the US AW site, there is this info on RAID restores (http://tinyurl.com/ameu5) which seems kinda helpful - might see if I can read through this again and really understand. Seems like you can do a restore of RAID, at least using the AW respawn (which seems to be a version of Ghost 8.0 is screenshots are to be believed) but it seems a little indirect.

2. I thought i might dig around a little and see what i turn up. Basically, I'm collecting as much trialware and freeware imaging software as i can. I'll create an image with ALL of them, then try to restore all of them.

In the meantime, any help would be really appreciated...

Ok, well it didn't quite turn into the huge mega-image test I was hoping for but I was eventually able to do the image. But first....

I tried with..
Ghost 2003 but no luck there - I think the image creation hung on the boot to DOS.

A trial version of Ghost 10 - i could create the image but to restore it I needed to have a Ghost recovery disk (and i didn't have one because all i had was the downloaded trial - and the retail CD is the recovery CD). I presume from this that the trial of Ghost 10 does not support imaging/restoring active boot partitions.

Image for Windows - i was hoping this could do it as I liked the price. the image went fine but when i went to do the restore it asked me which HDD i wanted to restore to - when my answer was "well, both..."

Acronis True Image 9.0 - the image creation went fine and when i restored it was fine to restore to a RAID0 partition. I've since bought the product.

I would have liked to test more of the image products on the market - it seems like there is a lot - but happy that i was able to get one working. Next step is to get all my apps and the whole thing set up just right, then take another image - and keep coming back to this every 6 months, update drivers etc and repeat the process.

btw, AW Australia does not offer a respawn disk - and they should - but even if they this doesn't help with my longer-term problem of keeping my system clean and up to date.