Server 2008 Complete PC retore error 0x80070490

Question

I have daily backups of my Server 2008 (actually SBS2008) onto a 1T internal SATA harddisk.  I tried a restore operation to verify the backups to a RAID array (Adaptec) and keep on getting Element Not Found error (0x80070490).  How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

OK.  No go.  I went as far as detaching the backup harddisk from ICH9R, and reattaching only when it searches for a backup to restore, installing ICH9R drivers in the process.
Now I got an error of 0x80042407, disk set as active in BIOS (which is my new array) is too small to restore.
I have a theory, though.  If it is true, then MS really should do better.....
On the original disk array, I used 2X 1T HD in a RAID 1 configuration, and the system see it as a 1T drive.  I have 2 partitions of 250GBs (for a total of 500G) in size.  So only half of the complete visible array is used. 
So to recap: 
1)  Whole array 1T RAID1 seen to BIOS and OS. 
2)  Only 2 partitions of 250GBs are on the array (C: OS, D: Storage)
3)  Server 2008 sees the remaining ~500GB as unused, unpartitioned.
Now I am trying to restore to a RAID6 array of 8X128G (SSDs) so roughly 700GBs.  The BIOS sees the array as 710GB.  In the 2008 Recovery, after I installed the drivers (which had displayed an error despite driver installing fine....), 2008 recovery environment recognized the 710GB as empty.  I cleaned the arrary via dispart to make sure.
Here's where stupidity must be at its highest.  The recovery environment probably sees that backup image assuming that I will need AT LEAST 1TB space to restore but in reality, I need much less (max of ~500GB, should be even less because the partitions are not even half full).  So....
1)  2008 Complete PC Recovery sees the backup image is from a 1T space.
2)  2008 Complete PC Recovery doesn't distinguish whether the whole 1T space is used, but just that it was FROM 1T space.
3)  2008 sees the recovery target has less than 1T.
4)  It gets lazy and simply refused to restore with various errors....
I had used 2008 Complete PC recovery because but always restoring to the same capacity drives/space and never really have much of a problem.  But this is the first time that I tried restoring an image from a larger space to a smaller space (even though the data should fit comfortably).
If this is the case, than MS really should be able to do better as it doesn't matter how MS puts it, system imaging technology is not new and products from other vendors can do this without jumping thru loops and hoops....