trying to clone a raid setup to a single drive

[cuti7399]

Hello all,

I have 2 sata drives setup in raid 0. Now i try to upgrade to a bigger single sata drive by cloning. I can boot and use the new drive only when the old drives are there BUT when i try to remove the old drives, then the new drive would only boot too winxp logo. It could never make it to windows. When i put back the old drives then the new drive would boot into windows and i can use it.
I have tried putting the new drive into different sata ports but no help. I used norton ghost, acronis, seagate to clone but none would help

Please help, thanks

 

[Jiggz]

Maybe you will be better off creating an image of the RAID'ed hdd's into one of the partitions in the new hdd and then restore the image to the new hdd. The worst thing you can do is to do a repair re-installation of Windows on the new hdd. It will preserve your windows and program settings except for the window updates and activation. Of course, this will be your last choice if required.

 

[corkyg]

If you used Acronis TI, you should use it with the program prepared Rescue Disk and do the cloning outside of Windows. Cloning from within Windows is fraught with errors. BTW - for XP, version 10 build 4942 is the best.

 

[cuti7399]

when I tried to clone in dos, my c raided drives do not show up!

 

[corkyg]

I didn't say to clone in DOS. When you boot with TI's rescue CD you are in a Linux variant independent of Windows.

 

[Old Hippie]

BTW - for XP, version 10 build 4942 is the best.

Why? Inquiring Old Hippies wanna know. I ran that version for a long time, but have lately gone to version 11.0, build 8053.

 

[cuti7399]

oh sorry, i did not mean Dos but from the rescue media.

Still no luck yet, maybe i would have the go the repair installation route which I have to find floppy drive and disk because windowsxp install disc would not see my sata drives.

 

[Roguestar]

Slipstream SP2 onto an XP install disc, it comes with SATA support.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1626

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie

BTW - for XP, version 10 build 4942 is the best.

Why? Inquiring Old Hippies wanna know. I ran that version for a long time, but have lately gone to version 11.0, build 8053.

The main reason is me - version 11 doesn't recognize my Graphire mouse. I have all the versions' Rescue Media disks since ver. 6, and for XP Pro, 10/4942 seems to be the fastest with no errors.

For Vista, 11 is a must in the cloning game.

 

[Old Hippie]

The main reason is me - version 11 doesn't recognize my Graphire mouse. I have all the versions' Rescue Media disks since ver. 6, and for XP Pro, 10/4942 seems to be the fastest with no errors.

Ahh, it's a personal equipment type of thing. I hadn't noticed any performance differences, but then again, I'm the guy who never made an Acronis boot disc. :laugh:

Thanks for the response. I always value your opinion! :thumbsup:

 

[cuti7399]

problem solved, made an image with acronis then restore it to the new drive. The new drive is not totally allocated due size different but I think I can fix that using acronis disk director. I also notice slight performance drop vs. the 2 raptors in raid 0

 

[Jiggz]

Originally posted by: cuti7399
problem solved, made an image with acronis then restore it to the new drive. The new drive is not totally allocated due size different but I think I can fix that using acronis disk director. I also notice slight performance drop vs. the 2 raptors in raid 0

Sometimes cloning is not the way to go when replacing OS hdd, especially if the Cloning Software is window based. The reason for this is that some files in use by Windows will not be copied to the new hdd. This is probably the reason your cloned hdd will not boot unless working in tandem wit the old hdd. A good cloning software is the one that works in DOS. And usually very few will work with RAID'ed hdd's in DOS. With single hdd, Acronis and Ghost will do the job, hell even Maxblaster will do.