Restoring a Raid 0 Image to Non-Raid System

[clutchc]

Greetings again folks.
I have a system with 2 HDDs in RAID 0 configuration. Can a Win7 Backup Image from that system be restored to a system w/o RAID; i.e. a single HDD? (I'm thinking the system merely sees the RAID 0 disks as one large HDD with simply more platters and heads.)

 

[WyomingKnott]

Yes, except... Was this an image of your system drive, and do you intend to boot the restored image? You may have a classic problem there, one that we see more often when someone restores a boot image to a system that is not identical.

In that case, a Win7 Repair installation on the target system will probably resolve any problems. Restore the image, boot from the Win7 installation disk, and choose to Repair an existing installation.

Have fun.

 

[clutchc]

Ahh. I see. Yes, I was thinking in terms of simply replacing the 2 RAID 0 drives with a larger non-RAID 0 HDD setup in the same system, doing away with RAID, then restoring the image to the new drive. Would that need any changes?

 

[WyomingKnott]

Probably a repair install, as I described above.

 

[clutchc]

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