HW RAID 1 Windows System/Boot HDD upgrade/replacement ... Method?

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I am upgrading 128GB SSD mirror to 256GB drives. Essentially running out of space.

The Mirror is my Boot Device/partition/data for Windows 7U

The RAID is a SATA3 HW RAID 1 (Mirror) of x02 on Intel MB, not in Windows.

I'm trying to figure out the methodology to replace.

I imagine I have to back up the partition (C:) (Boot) and its data. Currently, the mirror is a 119.2GB NTFS partition and 3.336 MB of Unallocated. Once the patition/data is backed up I can destroy the mirror and replace the drives and create a new HW mirror just like before.

Not being able to boot from the empty new drives, I imagine I will have to use bootable media with one or more of the Acronis products to restore the Boot partition and data on to the new drives (the mirror)

I have TrueImage 2015 Build 6613 and Disk Director 12.

If anyone has experience with this procedure, I'd appreciate some instruction.

If it was a single, non-raided HDD I'd be OK, but the RAID is making me cautious.

Thank you!

Mon, 09/28/2015 - 22:26
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I have used the Intel Raid feature in the past in a similar environment. It was Raid 1 using HD's. The following would be my suggested steps.

1 - Back up your C: drive to an external HD using ATI2015.
2 - Re-boot and terminate the Raid 1 environment.
3 - Remove your old SSD's.
4 - Install only 1 of the New SSD's. (This will be the primary volume)
5 - Boot the system from the Acronis recovery disc.
6 - Restore your system from your current backup.
7 - I would then boot to windows and insure that the restore was correctly performed.
8 - Install the second New SSD.
9 - Power the system up and setup the RAID 1 environment.

If everything goes well, the hardware raid will create the mirror volume.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:06
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Normally disks connected to a RAID controller have to be initialized and the group created. This means both disk are in the RAD before a partition, file system and data are added to the disk.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:24
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Douglas Chomyn wrote:

Normally disks connected to a RAID controller have to be initialized and the group created. This means both disk are in the RAD before a partition, file system and data are added to the disk.

Yes you are correct. In step 4 install both new SSD's and set up the raid environment. Then proceed with step 5 and ignore the rest.

Fri, 10/02/2015 - 14:31