Having trouble transferring a Win 7 system to new RAID hardrives
My Dell desktop HD crashed a couple of days ago taking with it no data, but lots and lots of installed software. Fortunately the data is all on servers. I spent the better part of a half day trying to revive the damaged drive and was successful in getting it operational again. But, once failed, no longer trusted, so I set about to replace that one drive with a pair of drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The MB supports that and the new drives installed without issues.
Before swapping drives I used TI 2014 Premium to clone the original to a Seagate USB portable drive. Then the drive swap, RAID initialized and tried to get the image copied back to the new RAID. No luck. I first tried to see if the Segate image would boot. No. Then I tried an Acronis bootable CD made from the 2014 software. From that I tried cloning back from the Seagate to the RAID. No luck there either. The system seems to copy back, but won't then boot from the RAID.
What am I doing wrong? Or, better put, what's the best way to accomplish the objective which is, simply, To get a working Win 7 OS HD with installed software successfully transferred over to a new RAID array on the same system?
Thanks.


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