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Expanding Raid 0 Disks

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I want to install larger drives for my Raid 0 bootable drive. I do not want to reinstall the Vista OS, just put the OS and data on larger drives. I downloaded the trial TI, but it does not include Clone in the trial version. I downloaded Migrate Easy 7.0 trial and followed the wizard and it said that the clone was complete, but the whole process only took a minute or two for a 500GB to 1.5 TB clone. Can't have transferred 500 GB in that time. I want to buy TI, but since the Migrate Easy doesn't seemed to have worked properly, I am hesitant expecting the same behavior with TI and wasting $50.

I just want to clone the Raid 0 to a new drive and then create a new Raid 0 from that cloned drive without having to fuss with expanding the partitions on the new drive. I assume I could make a backup, create the new Raid with the new drives and restore from the backup, but would I then have a 500 GB partition or a 1.5 TB partition. I assume the former.

Any advice?

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Not exactly. If you make a backup, create the raid with the new drives, and restore form the backup, you can adjust the restored partition size.

If you have several partitions, restore them one by one, *in the same order* there were in, and resize only the main C:\SYstem partition and/or your data partitions, if any. Do not resize the hidden partitions, if any.

You should backup, validate restore from the bootable CD to make sure you can restore easily.