Getting rid of Raid 0

[ddli]

Ok so basically I have 2 SSDs in raid 0 and an emergency came up so I need to make some quick cash, I need to dissemble the raid and sell the SSDs.

So my question is how would i transfer all of my data from the 2 SSDs to one HDD.

 

[gracefully]

Make a drive image then "burn" the image to another HDD. You'll have to make sure that the HDD is equal in size or larger than the image, though.

 

[4745454b]

Most HDD manufacturers have software you can download from their website that will allow you to copy from old drive to new drive. I'd start looking there.

 

[ddli]

something like this
http://lifehacker.com/#!326086/hot-image-your-pcs-hard-drive-with-driveimage-xml
?

 

[gracefully]

Yes.

 

[WyomingKnott]

If it's not the OS, but just data that you want to copy, make sure that the target drive is attached, turn on the computer, and use Windows Explorer to copy from the SSD RAID to the hard drive.

Be kind to both yourself and the buyer; do a Secure Erase of both SSDs. It will protect your data and give the buyer a clean, fast SSD.

 

[ddli]

Full transfer, OS,drivers,games,etc from raid SSD to HDD and when you say secure erase, do you mean like, a full format?

 

[WyomingKnott]

SATA drives have a built-in command called Secure Erase, to do, well, a Secure Erase. Better than a full format. Toms uses it between test passes on SSDs.

I came across it in a document from the National Institute of Standards and Technology on sanitizing media: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf. They state that "The Secure Erase software can be download from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) CMRR site." CMRR is the Center for Magnetic Recording Research: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/

And here's where they offer the secure erase utility: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

 

[WyomingKnott]

Since you want to clone the whole drive, including the OS and the ability to boot, grab a free utility like EASEUS disk copy (http://easeus.com/disk-copy/), put the drive in the machine, and clone the data from the array to the disk. Once you remove the RAID array and boot from the disk, there is an excellent chance that the boot will fail because the system is trying to read your OS drive using RAID drivers. Should this happen, boot to your install disk and do a Repair install.

 

[ddli]

by repair install, you mean run the repair utility? or something like this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

sorry if it sounds a bit silly; i just wanted to be sure.

 

[4745454b]

That link looks like what you want to do. I haven't done it on Win7, but I've done this on XP before and that looked like the same process.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Isn't sevenforums great? Actually, that's not what I meant, but it looks worth trying, if your system boots in the first place.


I only do repair installations if, as I wrote above, the system will not boot. I boot from the installation DVD, letting it detect my Win7 install, and choosing to do a repair. The link you provided looks snazzier, since it goes to the update site instead of working with files as of the date that the DVD was burned.

I gotta keep that link around.

 

[ddli]

just cloned it and did windows repair

 

[ddli]

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