experimental jason Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 So, I've just set up a hardware raid 0 array (my mobo has built in RAID) and freshly installed win7x64 on it. I was going to spend a few days re-downloading or restoring all my steam games and such. In the past, whenever I do a hard drive change, I've used XXClone to clone my old boot drive to the new one (it allows cloning to different size HDDs). Can I boot from my old hard drive with the RAID 0 array as a secondary drive, clone over to it, then remove old drive and be back in business? I've never tried a clone operation with a RAID array. The RAID is 2 samsung spinpoint 7200rpm 1tb drives. Old HD is a WD 500gb. Anybody done this, or have suggestions? Any freeware cloning software you've used to do this? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaz Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 I personally never had tried using a cloaning software on RAID, but I have used it quite a few times. You can select which drive you want to boot from in your bios selecing HDD-0 or HDD-1 over RAID or how ever your bios is. If you want to install Windows freash on a RAID you need to make sure you have a floppy drive or USB drive with the drivers on it. I havne't done a raid install with Windows 7, but in XP I needed to use a floppy drive to load the drivers to find my RAID drives. I hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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