I have a situation that seems quite complicated relating to Windows 7 OS being moved from my current RAID 0 to a new SSD.
One of my RAID 0 drives is on its way to failing. (There are two 500gb HD's in the RAID) I just purchased a small SSD to serve as a boot drive. I want the final setup to be a SSD boot drive and only keep the good 500gb HD in the pc. I usually use external drives for data storage to keep mobile when I use my laptop.
The pc is older, a prebuilt HPE-180t. It came with the RAID setup. I have recovery discs for the OS. I don't know how I should go about making the move though.
Because I'm going to be moving away from the RAID, how can I backup the files I want to keep? Manually move them to an external drive? Will the files be complete moving them from the RAID? I can reinstall all of my programs so I'm not worried about them, just a handful of files. When I try to do a full backup it always fails, not due to any space issues, it just times out.
Will I be able to move the files off the drives, take out the RAID in bios/remove the drives, install the OS using just the recovery discs to the SSD, and then reconnect the one good 500gb drive?
What I'm most concern about is using the recovery discs to install on the SSD. Because it was prebuilt and the OS is OEM, it should still work because the motherboard is the same right?
Thanks for your help!
One of my RAID 0 drives is on its way to failing. (There are two 500gb HD's in the RAID) I just purchased a small SSD to serve as a boot drive. I want the final setup to be a SSD boot drive and only keep the good 500gb HD in the pc. I usually use external drives for data storage to keep mobile when I use my laptop.
The pc is older, a prebuilt HPE-180t. It came with the RAID setup. I have recovery discs for the OS. I don't know how I should go about making the move though.
Because I'm going to be moving away from the RAID, how can I backup the files I want to keep? Manually move them to an external drive? Will the files be complete moving them from the RAID? I can reinstall all of my programs so I'm not worried about them, just a handful of files. When I try to do a full backup it always fails, not due to any space issues, it just times out.
Will I be able to move the files off the drives, take out the RAID in bios/remove the drives, install the OS using just the recovery discs to the SSD, and then reconnect the one good 500gb drive?
What I'm most concern about is using the recovery discs to install on the SSD. Because it was prebuilt and the OS is OEM, it should still work because the motherboard is the same right?
Thanks for your help!
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