Disaster recovery for Win XP Pro (RAID 0)

Hi Folks,
My situation is as follows:
I have a new PC with a system disc (Win XP Pro) on a RAID 0 (Stripe set) of
capacity 500GB. I want to make a back-up "image" of the complete system.

Now on my previous PC, which also had XP Pro but on a single hard drive, of
capacity 250GB, I was able to open Partition Magic and copy the complete partition to another drive, either internal or external.

The way that Partition Magic did this was that it did as much as it could
from Windows, then did a restart and completed the final part from DOS (to
copy the swap file and mbr I suppose, but I'm not sure what it does in DOS?)
before loading windows again. This all worked fine.

My question is really this: If I try to do the same on my new PC with its
RAID 0 stripe system disc, I am sure that the Partition Magic actions from
Windows will work OK, but when the system restarts and goes into DOS to
complete the copy partition operations, the RAID 0 drivers will not be
available in DOS and I am concerned therefore, that it will not "see" the
striped set, it will only "see" the first hard disc.
If I have a disaster and hence try to copy back from the external to the RAID 0 set, Will it "see" the set or just the first drive?
Any experts on Partition Magic?
I have thought of using Norton Ghost but I have exactly the same concerns.
Thanks for reading the post.
Any ideas or suggestions welcome.
Regards.

RAID x creates a logical volume upon which data is read & written transparently.

If you use a Backup program, it will read the same logical volume (not the physical volumes)
and create an image that can be restored to 'any volume of the appropriate size'.

Hi Jo,
Thanks for your comments.
It's true that if I use a (Windows) backup program or any that work from within windows, it will only see the logical drives so no problem.
However, I want to create a drive image that will restore the complete drive in one without the need to reload programs and settings etc.
I know this is supposed to be possible using something like Norton Ghost 9/10 which creates an image on the fly, but I'm not convinced this will always work.
If you look at the Radified Forum on Norton Ghost, they reckon the best version is Ghost 2003, because it goes into DOS and makes an image sector by sector so you know it's a true copy. That's what I'd like to do but the problem is getting DOS to "see" the logical volumes.
Maybe it's just not possible and I'll have to settle for Ghost 10 or similar.
Any view on which is best Ghost 10 or Acronis True Image?
Regards.