Can I clone with RAID disk error (0)
Hi, my Vaio Z1 with a Samsung SSD has started to report an error on startup. This is showing up in the Intel Rapid Storage Technology boot screen for port 4: "Error Occurred (0)"
Will I be able to clone this drive?


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Steve,
Thanks indeed for that excellent and detailed advice. I've followed all of your suggestions and now just have to hope that my Vaio works OK after I switch to a non-RAID disk and then restore from my backup (which I'm updating daily!)
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Well the replacement SSD finally arrived. Its twice the capacity of the failing one.
I've restored using the full disk and partitions method. That's worked well, but I now have an unused 230GB partition. My preference would be to combine the C partition and the spare one, but that's not possible it seems (this is windows 10).
Any suggestions? Would doing a restore using the 'files and folders' method be a better option?
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Jonathan, if your new SSD has been restored and is working well apart from the unused 230GB partition, then I would use a partition tool such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard tool to make any further changes to partition sizes, merge partitions etc.
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In reply to Jonathan, if your new SSD… by truwrikodrorow…

Great advice Steve. A nice tool that! I just had to delete a recovery partition and extend the C partition.
Job done. Many thanks
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Like Steve I use MiniTool to adjust partition sizes when replacing with a larger SSD to get partitions to the size I want.
Ian
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