Using Clonezilla to restore an image to a RAID0 setup

Hello all,
I'm trying to restore an image of my desktop Windows7 parition to my Windows7 partition on my W540 (Note: i have three windows7 licences so I can just activate under the laptop once I transfer the Desktop image).
The W540 is setup for hardware RAID, two 128GB drives which make a 256GB total drive (which I thought Clonezilla's docs says it supports hardware RAID)...
But when i boot up Clonezilla it can't find even find the RAID drive(s) so I'm not going to go further to attempt to restore the image.
Any idea if this is supported? I saw there is a way to add a driver to the Clonezilla boot cd. but seems like these are linux drivers? and not Intel Rapid Storage Technology windows7 drivers.
Anyway looking for some advice, I'd even settle for a way to do it where I'd have to delete the RAID volume via Intel RST be4 boot-time, adding it to a non-RAID disk, then converting to RAID0 afterwards.... just not sure thats possible... May just give it a try.
Thanks!,
Ari

Is there any good reason you want to save such potentially enormous data in a database rather than the filesystem? You can just use mysql to pair the uploaded files with a specific user and keep it simple.
Here's you're run of the mill uploader with a demo included, all the source, etc.
http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/
If you do decide to save it in a database then you literally just have PHP read the binary data and pass it directly through (with a proper image header) and Flash can load it like a regular image. It's literally MySQL Binary -> PHP -> Flash and it just shows up as the file type you designate.

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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:58:20 GMT, Thomas Degenhardt wrote:
> The Group membership shows only an SID, perhaps the old
> Administrators SID... So i cannot install drivers for the included NIC
> in order to use DLU for logging in with an Administrator from edir.
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> I can successfully image locally to the 2nd
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http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?imagingx
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Hi Richard,
I'm sorry you had to go through some pretty emotional trauma with your U410 getting stolen and all. However, I do hope you are back on track now.
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