Moving from RAID to Raptor

[Cutthroat]

So I got a good price on a WD Raptor 150GB and I intend on moving my OS to the new drive. Currently my OS is on RAID drives. I would like clone the RAID drives onto the Raptor, which should work fine with Acronis True Image, but I know the OS will crash when it reboots because of changing the storage controllers from RAID to AHCI.

The only way I can think that might work is to try a repair install on Vista after I reboot on the Raptor, no guarantees that will work though, any other ideas?

 

[corkyg]

It really depends on what kind of RAID you are using. If you are using striping, then you will need to run a good imaging program to capture the array on a single drive. If you are using mirroring, either drive will work alone.

Your proposed course of action should be OK - and with Vista, a repair install is easy. Keep in mind that TrueImage 11 is the only version that will clone in Vista and not necessarily require a repair.

 

[Cutthroat]

I'm using RAID 0, and Acronis True Image 10. I have v11 but it won't work because it will not recognize the RAID array except in Windows. It's just Intel's software RAID so I have a lot of trouble getting anything to recognize it except Vista, that's one of the reasons I want to get away from RAID.

So if the disk cloning won't work maybe I can reinstall Vista and then restore an image I made from before the reinstall, then try the repair option to fix the drivers.

 

[corkyg]

I didn't know that Intel had a RAID with no controller. Strange! Have you tried doing it from within Vista? Maybe even a backup image and restore if the cloning doesn't work.

RAID 0 is such a PITA!

My TI 11 created Rescue CD sees my RAID 1 array just fine - but calls it SCSI. It works!

 

[Cutthroat]

TI 11 works fine while in Vista and recognizes the drives, but if a reboot is required it won't be able to complete the operation because it doesn't see any drives. Yeah the Intel Matrix RAID is a PITA, and overall there are too many pitfalls with RAID to deal with so I'm going for simplicity now. Worst case scenario is I completely reinstall Windows, but I'm feeling kinda lazy.

I'll be sure to post back what I had to do after I get around to it.

 

[Cutthroat]

Well it's all done and I didn't format, the cloning worked fine with TI 10. As expected, when I changed the storage controller from RAID to AHCI it would crash upon reboot. I tried everything to get it to run in AHCI mode without crashing, but I was completely unsuccessful. I decided to just run it in IDE mode, I don't need NCQ functions anyway. After setting it to IDE mode everything runs just fine, there was no need to mess around with drivers or anything.