Im switching two 250 gb hdds in raid 0 with a new 240 gb ssd and keeping the two for media storage. I would really like to keep all my files and installed programs so a straight up clone would have been the easiest but i see now its not so easy. Now i plan on buying a new motherboard on cyber monday as the current one doesnt have sata3 ports and im going to finally upgrade from vista to windows 7! Any chance these other upgrades might make the hard drive switch easier?
switching two raid 0 hdd's for a single ssd
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- May 27, 2010
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Not really. Cloning a raid array is not impossible, just need the right tools.
I would give Clonezilla a try. Their tutorials are pretty good for most situations. In this case you will need to move any non-critical files off of the drives and shrink the volume to under that of the SSD's formatted size.
I would give Clonezilla a try. Their tutorials are pretty good for most situations. In this case you will need to move any non-critical files off of the drives and shrink the volume to under that of the SSD's formatted size.
already got it shrunk down to 130gb thanks to cccleaner and defraggler. ill take a look at some of those videos
i havent tried it yet just wanted to check with some guys who know what they're talking about before i try. i have a free version of acronis that came with the drive from ocz wasnt sure if thats the best way to go with what i wanna do.
any advice on what order to make these three upgrades for the smoothest switch, unless it just doesnt matter?
i havent tried it yet just wanted to check with some guys who know what they're talking about before i try. i have a free version of acronis that came with the drive from ocz wasnt sure if thats the best way to go with what i wanna do.
any advice on what order to make these three upgrades for the smoothest switch, unless it just doesnt matter?
So any idea what would be the best way to go about this? Idk if I'm way off base here but I was thinking of making a back up of the raid drive then installing the new ssd with a fresh install of Vista and restoring everything with my back up. Is that something that would work? And would I still have all my files and installed programs?
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