How do I clone a RAID 0 to a larger single drive?

If using the "AS is" option and you have the remaining in unallocated space, this can easily be corrected to extend the single partition to consume the additional space. Post a picture of the new disk after cloning using the Windows Disk Management graphical view. One of the free disk partitioning tools could easily extend the partition boundaries. More info available if needed.

You may also find some help by clicking on the top line of my signature below and lot at index item #3-VV. This shows how to use the Manual cloning method (clone to larger disk) to resize the partition.

Another option would be to do a disk option backup and then restore the backup onto the new disk. The index item #3-AA shows how this might be done.

I am not a raid user so I am assuming the backup and restore would act just like a single disk backup and restore.

Before cloning, it is always a good safety practice to have a full disk backup as a safety reserve in case there are cloning issues with your source disk.

Rusty,

Can you explain what you are trying to do? I am not clear whether the information you are trying to move from the RAID 0 of Computer A to the single 2TB disk of Computer B contains the OS.

If it contains the OS, and you want this on the 2TB, and the 2TB is going to be a bootable disk, you will most likely have a BSOD on boot because you not only change the computer, but also the disk controller from RAID to IDE/AHCI.

If it contains the OS, but you don't want the OS on the 2TB, then don't use a clone. Just backup your computer, and restore the content to the 2TB.

If there is no OS in the RAID 0, but you want to restore only a specific partition, same thing as above: do a backup, restore on the 2TB.

Thanks for all of your insight and sorry I was not more clear in my question. I am very novice at this.

I am trying to make my 2TB the new boot drive without partitions (doing away with the two 500gb drives in RAID 0 configuration). I know nothing about RAID configurations, the new computer came that way. The software sees the new drive as a RAID drive as well?

Pat L - The following sounds like what I need/want to do but don't completely understand it? What is a BSOD?

"If it contains the OS, and you want this on the 2TB, and the 2TB is going to be a bootable disk, you will most likely have a BSOD on boot because you not only change the computer, but also the disk controller from RAID to IDE/AHCI. "

Each time I try to clone the drive other than in "Manual" mode and "AS IS" I receive the following error message "Failed to move the selected data. Make sure that your new drive is not smaller that your old one and your partitions do not contain errors. You can check for the errors and correct them using a special utility." This is confusing as well.

GroverH - As requested I have attached a picture of the disk in Windows Disk Management.

I hope this additional information makes the question clearer. I really appreciate both of your time and expertise.

Rusty

Rusty,

You may not be able to clone your disk and make it bootable: your current system is using RAID drivers deeply embedded in the registry. If you clone this to a single disk successfully, you may not be able to keep the disk controller to the RAID SATA option in the BIOS. If you can keep it at RAID, ie the controller finds the disk, then Windows might boot. If you have to change the disk controller to IDE for example, Windows will not boot for sure: you will have a blue screen of death (BSOD) and get stuck.

You will have to find out!

First things first: instead of cloning the disk, use Acronis True Image (ATI) to do a backup of your current RAID including all partitions. Store this backup on a USB disk.
Print a copy of the disk management picture you have posted above.
Then remove your current disk.
Put your new disk at the same spot/connector as the old disk
In the BIOS, do not change the SATA setting
Boot the computer on the Acronis recovery CD.
In the Home menu, choose recover disk and partitions.
Browse to the backup you just did (ATI running on the CD will show you drive letters different from Windows: look at disk labels)
Continue the wizard to select what to restore
Select the first partition (OEM) only. Continue.
The new destination is your new 2TB disk. Do not resize this partition. Do not change the drive letter. Mark it primary only. Complete the restore.
Once done, restore the recovery partition. Do not resize it. Do not change the drive letter. Mark it primary and active. Complete the restore.
Finaly, restore the C:\system partition. You can resize it to take advantage of the new space on your disk. Do not change the drive letter. Mark it primary .
Finally, restore the MBR+Track0 and choose to restore the disk signature.
Remove the Acronis CD.
Reboot.
If Windows boot, you are done. If not, let us know.

As per post #1, your attachment shows that on the 2TB disk, the right boundary of the existing 916.48 gb partition can be easily expanded to consume the entire 931.49 GB unallocated space so the drive C partition size would become 1847.97 gb. Doing so would not change the bootability of the disk. It will continue to boot or not boot based on its current status.

If you can boot from the 2TB now and the only problem is the reduced size, this is easily fixable with a free disk partitioning tool such as Partition wizard.

Here is a link to such a tool.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/

Here is a direct link to cause the free tool to be downloaded.

http://software-files-a.cnet.com/s/software/12/61/92/43/pwhe75.exe?toke…

Download and install the file onto your current old system. Run this Partition wizard from within Windows.

1. Start the Mini Partitioning tool program.
2. Select or mouse click the 916.48 partition on the 2TB disk.
3. Use the Move/Resize option and place the mouse pointer onto the right boundary of the 916.48 partition and drag the boundary line into the unallocated space so as to the extreme right to consume all unallocated space.
4. Note in the upper left corner of the program menu is options to
Apply or Undo or Discard your recent changs.
If your suze settings look correct, click the apply option.
If your settings do not look correct, then click the discard or undo option and start again with new settings on he 916 partition.
5. Upon a successful completion of resizing and the Apply has been completed, then shutdown and DISCONNECT the old disk and attach the new 2 TB to the same MB connectors as the old disk. Reboot the 2tb disk nd see if the new disk will boot as a standalone disk and be as you expected it to be.

Note: None of what I have suggested relates to raid as I am not a user of raid and can offer no suggestions about its settings. I certainly do recommend that you make a complete disk backup of your old disk before using it for any other purposes--assuming that the new 2TB will boot and be as you expected.

This resizing exercise could be performed using Windows 7 but doing so is live with no undo I prefer not to use the Windows feature and use the free Partition Wizard due to its ease of use and the undo/discard features so you never have to click the apply option until your are satisfied that the steps you performed were what you wanted to achieve.

Thank you both! Looks like I have a little work to do. I appreciate your time and info and will keep you informed on my progress. I'll be away from home for most of the week so it may be a while before I get back to it. Thank you again.

Rusty

Well I dropped a few things and started playing with the computer again. I disconnected the two 500gb drives in RAID 0 configuration and connected the 2TB cloned drive to see if it would load up Windows and it did! After the drive software loaded and rebooted, I tried GroverH's suggestion with partition wizard and extended the drive to all of the unallocated space (please see the attachment). I will play with it today and see what happens before adding my 1.5TB drive and clone to it. It seems to be working correctly, what am I missing? Thank you again for sharing your time and expertise with me.

Rusty

It does not appear to be missing anything. Try your Windows updates.

Using Partition Wizard was a replacement for what you should have been able to do in cloning using the Manual, Manual/move option. You should have been able to resize the partitions as I illustrated in my prior reference. Fortunately, your partition arrangement made it easy to resolve. Other partition configurations would have been more difficult but still doable.

Do take the time to do a disk option backup so if the disk dies (no clone possible), you have a replacement creation option.