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1. C Restore won't boot; 2. D Restore to SSD not recognized by Windows 10

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I recently bought two SATA SSD drives to replace the c and d drives on my Windows 10 computer. The present c and d drives are in a raid array.

1. I restored the c drive from an ATI backup to a 500GB SSD (previous partition is 167 GB). I tried to get it to boot for nine days or so but no joy at all. The BIOS could see the SSD but wouldn't boot from it. I had to leave the BIOS in raid mode (as opposed to AHCI) or it couldn't see the drive at all. After doing four different restores (two from another computer and two from my computer) always the same symptom: no bootable os error message. I'm not planning to use raid anymore and the drive is not installed in a raid array. The drive is the first boot in the BIOS. My setup uses MBR for boot. I'm using ATI 2020.

I finally gave up and did a clean install of Windows 10, but of course that wiped out all my apps. The clean install of Windows 10 boots Just fine. 

Any suggestions on how to recover the original partition and make it bootable?? I've searched the web for hours and hours but couldn't find anything that worked.

 

2. A bigger problem. I recovered the previous d partition to a 1TB SSD (old partition is about 330 GB). If I recover it as a primary partition, the BIOS sees it but Windows doesn't see it.  If I recover it as a logical partition, the BIOS doesn't even see it. I've attempted three different recoveries on the d drive, two as a primary partition and one as a logical partition.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tommy

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Tommy,

So more questions at this point, I need to understand more of what you are attempting.

So I get the impression that you are working with a RAID array consisting of 2 or more physical disks.  Is this correct?

Is your RAID array a raid 1, raid 0, or other configuration?

Does this array appear as a single disk in Windows and more importantly in Acronis True Image?

I am assuming that your array does in fact appear as a single disk and you have partition that space into 2 storage areas those being lettered C: and D:.  Is this correct?

You state you restore the C: partition to an SSD which failed to boot.  So that implies that your Windows OS is on the C: partition.  Most Windows installs have one or more hidden partitions on the OS disk and in most cases one of those hidden partitions is required to get the C: partition to boot.  Are you confident that you restored all partitions of the OS or C: as you call it?  It is my impression that you have not.

As for your D: partition, this would need to be restored to a Primary Simple, Basic storage partitioned disk to be usable in Windows.  You can create that using Windows Disk Management.  The format can be either MBR or GPT with GPT being the most desirable.

 

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So more questions at this point, I need to understand more of what you are attempting.

So I get the impression that you are working with a RAID array consisting of 2 or more physical disks.  Is this correct?

Is your RAID array a raid 1, raid 0, or other configuration?

Does this array appear as a single disk in Windows and more importantly in Acronis True Image?

I am assuming that your array does in fact appear as a single disk and you have partition that space into 2 storage areas those being lettered C: and D:.  Is this correct?

You state you restore the C: partition to an SSD which failed to boot.  So that implies that your Windows OS is on the C: partition.  Most Windows installs have one or more hidden partitions on the OS disk and in most cases one of those hidden partitions is required to get the C: partition to boot.  Are you confident that you restored all partitions of the OS or C: as you call it?  It is my impression that you have not.

As for your D: partition, this would need to be restored to a Primary Simple, Basic storage partitioned disk to be usable in Windows.  You can create that using Windows Disk Management.  The format can be either MBR or GPT with GPT being the most desirable.

I've resolved problem 1 by restoring from a February Windows 7 backup (had to install Windows 10 for 2020 tax software to run). Problem 2 remains. Windows 7 doesn't recognize D drive either. BIOS does see it, Windows doesn't. The original RAID array appears as two drives in both Windows and ATI. Each physical drive has its own letter C (OS), and D (data). I will upgrade to Windows 10 again when Windows 7 sees both of the SSDs,

The new configuration that I'm trying to create consists of two SSDs, and will not be a RAID array. The backed up C drive (130 GB) is on a 630 GB SSD and the backed up D drive (350 GB) will go on a 1 TB SSD. The original configuration is MBR and I will stick with that on the new configuration.

Hope that this clarifies.

tommy

 

 

So let me ask then, how many physical disks made up the RAID array, 2, 3, ?

Again what level of raid was the array, 0, 1, 5, ?

Have you tried using Windows Disk Management to create a Primary, Simple, Basic formatted disk for this D: drive?