breaking raid 0

pintofhooky · 01-19-2006, 09:11 AM

Hi, I just am wondering if it is possible to transfer my operating system from a raid 0 set up to a single hard drive?
I have had a raid 0 in this pc for about a year and find the lag at boot up and when opening apps to be annoying and want to try on a single drive, right now, my boot takes awhile as the 3 hd's I have are on 2 different controllers adding to the bios post, and my startup takes forever, lol besides, these wd's I'm using are noisy! If I could xfer my os to a single seagate, it would quiet my system down and hopefully at least sped up my boot sequence.
any advice would be appreciated.

Pint

**blackduck30** · 01-19-2006, 05:25 PM

I have never personally tried to do what you suggest but I do not see why it would not be possible if you use a ghosting program as it should by rights just make a single image of the raid array and not an image of each drive individual drive, if you then install this onto your new drive I do not see why it shouldn't boot.
I personally would not touch the raid array until this is confirmed though, I would simply disable the array from the boot order until you confirmed that the new drive will boot.
There are quite a few good backup programs about, I have norton ghost but there are some free ones out there also
Let us know how you go

pintofhooky · 01-20-2006, 06:59 AM

Ok, thanks Blackduck, I'll find a program and give it a whirl, lol seems like a waste after all the help I got here to set up this raid but...
anyway, when I get toit I'll post my results, thanks again

Pint

01-19-2006, 09:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
pintofhooky Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: salem, or Posts: 151 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	breaking raid 0 Hi, I just am wondering if it is possible to transfer my operating system from a raid 0 set up to a single hard drive? I have had a raid 0 in this pc for about a year and find the lag at boot up and when opening apps to be annoying and want to try on a single drive, right now, my boot takes awhile as the 3 hd's I have are on 2 different controllers adding to the bios post, and my startup takes forever, lol besides, these wd's I'm using are noisy! If I could xfer my os to a single seagate, it would quiet my system down and hopefully at least sped up my boot sequence. any advice would be appreciated. Pint __________________ pintofhooky Asus P4P800-E Deluxe intel p4 3.4HT 2x 80 gig wd sata hdd's (raid 0), 1x160gig wd sata, Asus A9800xt/tvd 4xcorsair 512 pc3200c2, Asus 52x cd rw Liteon dvd rw win xp pro sp2

01-19-2006, 05:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
blackduck30 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wollongong/Australia Posts: 4,230 OS: XP pro SP3/Vista Ultimate My System	I have never personally tried to do what you suggest but I do not see why it would not be possible if you use a ghosting program as it should by rights just make a single image of the raid array and not an image of each drive individual drive, if you then install this onto your new drive I do not see why it shouldn't boot. I personally would not touch the raid array until this is confirmed though, I would simply disable the array from the boot order until you confirmed that the new drive will boot. There are quite a few good backup programs about, I have norton ghost but there are some free ones out there also Let us know how you go __________________ Blackduck30 Time is like money and milk, It's always running out Any Donations Help Keep TSF Free For All

01-20-2006, 06:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
pintofhooky Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: salem, or Posts: 151 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	Ok, thanks Blackduck, I'll find a program and give it a whirl, lol seems like a waste after all the help I got here to set up this raid but... anyway, when I get toit I'll post my results, thanks again Pint __________________ pintofhooky Asus P4P800-E Deluxe intel p4 3.4HT 2x 80 gig wd sata hdd's (raid 0), 1x160gig wd sata, Asus A9800xt/tvd 4xcorsair 512 pc3200c2, Asus 52x cd rw Liteon dvd rw win xp pro sp2