Raid0 to Standard

TexanAmmo

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My Win7 Home Premium system is currently setup with two 300GB SATA hard drives in Raid0 configuration as my primary drive. I get a total of 550GB with them, but I'm constantly running out of space of course.

I also have two 500GB drives (which are from different manufacturers) for a total of four in the case. I use those for game installs, backups of primary drive, etc.

I bought a WD Blue 1TB 7200 rpm drive with the intent to move all my OS drive contents over to it. I want to clone the entire content of the Raid0 drives over to the single 1TB drive without full re-install of OS etc.

How do I do that? It's been so long since I dealt with this I've completely forgotten. Plus what I am doing now is less common than just setting up Raid0 in the first place. hahahaha

Thanks in advance!

 

TexanAmmo

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Jul 24, 2016
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I followed the directions step by step from that site. But, I ran into a problem. I thought I had RAID/SATA but it turns out I have RAID/AHCI on this mobo. I had been looking at the wrong thing. So, I got as far as Step 7 successfully. But when I tried to reboot the now-restored drive, I got a message about BootMgr was missing and could only hit CTRL-ALT-DEL.

So, I figured I just need to re-create my raid0 array, restore the backup to the spanned drive, and re-enter Windows. That would allow me to convert to AHCI and then re-do Steps1-7 again correctly this time.

That SHOULD be what happens. But right now I can't get past the BootMgr problem after re-creating the array and restoring the backup. BadBod on the other site can't be reached via the contact button any longer. I am guessing the request bounced.

Any ideas?
 

TexanAmmo

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Jul 24, 2016
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I pinged Paragon's customer service via their forum over the weekend. Hopefully I get an answer from them early Monday, as having my primary PC out of commission is not bueno.

 

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