I am exchanging my RAID 0 in my system for a single SSD (this is my system drive). Has anyone successfully cloned a RAID 0 to a single SSD and had it boot?
I've read on lots of forums and have got a wide range of responses. Some say it's just not possible, others say it's no problem, some say that it's possible if you do x y and z, etc. However I haven't seen any of the forums where the OP came back and said it x and it worked.
I have tried Apricorn EZ GigIII to clone the drives (I've used many times to go from single spinning disk to single ssd). and was unable to get the drive to boot. Kept getting Missing BootMGR. I tried all the solutions for that I could find with no success.
I also have Acronis True Image 2012 with the Plus Pack. I have tried cloning, as well as booting to the bootable media and recovering the back up of my RAID 0, this again gives me boot errors that I find solutions for and still won't boot. Also tried putting a fresh install of windows on the new drive, then recovering the back up again with no luck.
I was also online with acronis support last night and they said it should work but never got it to.
Has any one successfully done this and if so what steps did you use? I know the best solution is a fresh install, however this is my production machine and it would be last resort for me to have to have my machine down for a day installing programs and getting all the preferences set back up.
Windows 7 x64. MoBo - Asus M5a97evo
thanks for any help
I've read on lots of forums and have got a wide range of responses. Some say it's just not possible, others say it's no problem, some say that it's possible if you do x y and z, etc. However I haven't seen any of the forums where the OP came back and said it x and it worked.
I have tried Apricorn EZ GigIII to clone the drives (I've used many times to go from single spinning disk to single ssd). and was unable to get the drive to boot. Kept getting Missing BootMGR. I tried all the solutions for that I could find with no success.
I also have Acronis True Image 2012 with the Plus Pack. I have tried cloning, as well as booting to the bootable media and recovering the back up of my RAID 0, this again gives me boot errors that I find solutions for and still won't boot. Also tried putting a fresh install of windows on the new drive, then recovering the back up again with no luck.
I was also online with acronis support last night and they said it should work but never got it to.
Has any one successfully done this and if so what steps did you use? I know the best solution is a fresh install, however this is my production machine and it would be last resort for me to have to have my machine down for a day installing programs and getting all the preferences set back up.
Windows 7 x64. MoBo - Asus M5a97evo
thanks for any help