ThinkStation S30, Adaptec RAID 6405E and Recovery Media

I have a working TS S30 with W7 and I've created my Recovery Media set of (4) DVDs. I then bought an Adaptec RAID 6405E and 2 SAS HDDs and created a RAID0 (I know... it isn't fault tolerant). Booted the S30 using the 1st Recovery Disk in order to install W7 but the setup doesn't recognize the RAID0. Perhaps because there's no driver for the Adaptec RAID 6405E on the Recovery Media.
The question is: how do I add the Adaptec RAID 6405E driver to the Recovery Media in order to run the W7 reinstall on the RAID0?
Thank you.
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Recovery media is designed to work with the system configurations as they ship from the factory.  Adding a third party RAID card not sold or supported by Lenovo is outside the intended design of the recovery media provided by Lenovo.  HDD controllers are particularly troubling in that drivers for the controller are needed to do any sort of image recovery.  Think about the number of available HDD controllers on the market and the sheer number of different drivers we would have to support to attempt the type of design you're implying.  We couldn't possibly cover them all, much less make sure they're up to date and the process works smoothly.
Conversely, we're limited by Microsoft with exactly what we can provide as recovery media and what their functionality is.  This is mainly due to piracy concerns.  We can't hand out recovery media that function essentially as OS install CDs that will work on any platform as there's not much we could do to stop users from using that recovery media in unauthorized ways.
Adaptec isn't officially supported because it's not a device that we qualified during system development.  Devices that are qualified (i.e. you can order your system directly from Lenovo with the device installed) are fully supported by Lenovo.
As I see it, you have two options to make the Adaptec card function correctly in your system:
1.  Install the card, set up any arrays you require, and reinstall the OS from scratch manually using the Adaptec drivers.
2.  Figure out some way to possibly migrate your current (I'm assuming Intel controller based) image over to your new Adaptec controller.
I'm not super familiar with what sort of image migration methods that might be popular today, so you'll probably have to do a bit of searching to figure that out.  The last time I migrated an image, I think I used Acronis software, but I also wasn't migrating to a platform with a different HDD controller.

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