Is this possible?

[Gigem]

Currently, I have 2 WD 120 GB HD's in RAID 0 with each other in my case. I stupidly bought a case with the hard drive bays sticking sideways, so with the raid thing clamped on the hard drive my case won't even close properly (I'm probably gonna cut the window in the meantime)

Both of the HD's work fine, but it is annoying to deal with two and I am thinking about just upgrading to 1 Raptor. I have a good amount of programs, etc. on my computer that I'm not sure if I can find the CD's, etc. to, and I was just wondering if there was any possible way to transfer everything, OS, programs and all from a RAIDed set of HD's to another HD.

This is probably a stupid question with a simple "hell no" reply, but I figure if there is a way you guys would know it.

 

[LED]

I do it all the time when backing up...use a program like Acronis or Ghost

 

[Gigem]

K so get all three HD's in my case at the same time, run the program, and it can dump all the info from the raided first two with the data lined up right and everything on the third? Am I understanding right?

Thanks for the help

 

[LED]

Hook up the Raptor and boot up the RAID0 setup...it'll install the SATA Driver for the Raptor and recognize it...Reboot and clone the Drive (assuming you have Acronyis or Ghost ready)

 

[g0dMAn]

You can ghost from a raid0 to a single HDD? That's awesome! What about vice versa??

 

[nineball9]

Originally posted by: g0dMAn
You can ghost from a raid0 to a single HDD? That's awesome! What about vice versa??

You can with True Image - I did it when I lost a drive in a RAID-0 array. After one drive failed, I reconfigured the remaining drive to run alone, and restored my backup image to it. When the replacement drive arrived, I imaged the single drive, installed the 2nd drive, rebuilt the RAID-0 array, and restored the single-drive image I had just created to the array.

Probably works with Ghost too, but I am not a Ghost expert.

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: g0dMAn
You can ghost from a raid0 to a single HDD? That's awesome! What about vice versa??

Either or...Ghost 2000 works as well as True Image...

 

[stevty2889]

I succesfuly did it with acronis true image as well. Imaged my raid-0 raptors, and restored the image to a single 160GB SATA II drive. Even switched motherboards at the time as well, just had to use the recovery console to disable the SATA raid drivers from trying to load.

As for the OP, not sure what you are refering to when you say the raid thing clamped on?? Have you tried putting the drives in the other way, to see if they fit that way? And another problem you might run in to, is restoring an image thats larger than your new drive..the largest raptor is 80gb..kinda hard to fit a 240gb image on there..although I could be wrong, I've never tried going to a smaller drive from an image.

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: Gigem
so with the raid thing clamped on the hard drive my case won't even close properly (I'm probably gonna cut the window in the meantime)

I'm wondering what you have pluged into the drives. If you're talking about SATA cables, you can get them with a 90 degree bend at the end. But they don't "clamp" on.

 

[Gigem]

I have one of these things:

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rh100.htm

and honestly I know next to nothing about SATA and RAID (mine was partially built with these in it) so if I can bypass the adapter or whatever that'd be even better

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Originally posted by: Gigem
I have one of these things:

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rh100.htm

and honestly I know next to nothing about SATA and RAID (mine was partially built with these in it) so if I can bypass the adapter or whatever that'd be even better

You're using a converter to go from SATA to a PATA drive. Are you using all the IDE hard drive connectors on the motherboard? You could always install a PCI IDE controller and then you could get rid of those coverters.

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: Gigem
I have one of these things:

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rh100.htm

and honestly I know next to nothing about SATA and RAID (mine was partially built with these in it) so if I can bypass the adapter or whatever that'd be even better

If you are going to get 1 Raptor then it's SATA...no choice on that matter.