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What is the best way to migrate Win 7 from RAID 0 to SSD? Step by step?

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Hi all
I'm looking to move my Win 7 install from a RAID 0 to a new SSD.

I've been reading on the forums and it's all made my head spin with a little too much information (some of which is over my head).
So, I thought I'd start this post to see if someone could help with some step by step advice.

I have Acronis TIH 2011 and the plus pack.
Also, I have the new SSD installed in the computer and the system can see it fine. (In fact, I installed a trial copy of Win 7 and it boots up fine).
I also made an Acronis disk image of the OS partition on the RAID array that I want to migrate to the SSD drive.

I'm not sure what's the best way for me to proceed. Do I just restore the disk image of the RAID array to the new SSD or do I do something else?

Thanks for the help.

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Alex,

Was your RAID0 hardware (set up in BIOS) or software (set in Windows disk management)?

Is the SSD connected to the same disk controller as the previous RAID0?

Moving from non RAID0 from RAID0 can be a challenge, even if you use the Universal Restore feature that comes with the Plus Pack.

If I were you, I would install Windows and my apps fresh on the SSD, and then change the default locations of the folders under C:\users to target folders on the RAID0.

If you want to try to move the OS to the SSD, check out this thread:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/27658

If you don't change the disk controller, you might be able to boot without a BSOD. If you have a BSOD, you can try another restore with Universal Restore, pointing ATI at the disk controller drivers in their INF file format. If that doesn't work, you can still go the fresh install route.

it's a hardware based RAID (Gigabyte 870A-UD3). I think the new SSD is on the same controller. I'm a bit hesitant because on the Gigabyte mobo it let's you set up the SATA 4/5 ports separately from the 1-4 ports. But, looking at the diagram in the user manual, they look like they are on the same controller. (certainly not on the second raid controller that controls the Sata ports 7/8).

I mostly don't want to lose the apps, (and I don't want to lose a Norton license key)

I already have the user folders on a different drive (music, documents, etc) and I will point to that when I'm done. It's just the system that I want to migrate, along with the programs and registrations.

Worth trying without Universal Restore and see what happens.

I have a similar situation.
Background
I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit under Volume License
My OS is installed in C partition on 2 SSD drives in Raid0 format. To save space on my SSD drives I installed all non OS programs into my D partition. I have a 640 GB SATA3 drive divided into 25 GB for D partition and the remainder G partition for my data
I did a full image of C and D to a TIB file

Sometime down the road, one of my SSD drives will fail and I may want to just buy a single SATA drive for my OS
my guess is my best bet would be to partition the new SATA drive into C and D partitions and try to restore my RAID0 C partition and my SATA D partition into my single SATA drive with 2 partitions C and D. Unless I want to reinstall everything, I am stuck with having 2 partitions C and D on my new SATA drive.

Superdoug3 wrote:
Unless I want to reinstall everything, I am stuck with having 2 partitions C and D on my new SATA drive.

Yes.

Hi All. I have a similar SSD situation. I want to back up my SSD Drive but it doesn't show up in Acronis. I can see my D and F drives which are traditional spindal drives but not the SSD. Anyone know how to make it show up so I can back it up??? I've installed the latest TIH 11 and the add ons but still nothing.

Regards,
Robert

What is the brand and mode of your SSD?

Hi Pat,

It's a Crucial 128GB SSD. I'm going to go after the firmware. All other drivers and Bios are up to date...
...and the firmware update did not work :(

My System:
Win 7-64 Pro
Intel Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.6GHz
Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 X79 Board
16GB Corsair PC3-10700H RAM - Quad Chan
Crucial 128GB SSD
Nvidia GTX 580-3GB
Nvidia GTX 280-1GB (Physics)
Crucial 128GB SSD
WDC WD20-Black-2TB
Seagate Barracuda-Green-2TB
Toshiba 250GB

Regards,
Robert

Did you try to deactivate the SSD disk caching?

I am not sure how you do it. This is probably a setting in the BIOS of the computer.