What is the best way to migrate Win 7 from RAID 0 to SSD? Step by step?
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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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.
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Worth trying without Universal Restore and see what happens.
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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.
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Superdoug3 wrote:Unless I want to reinstall everything, I am stuck with having 2 partitions C and D on my new SATA drive.
Yes.
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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
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What is the brand and mode of your SSD?
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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
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Did you try to deactivate the SSD disk caching?
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Hi Pat,
How do I do that? ...I'll look into that.
Thanks,
Robert
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I am not sure how you do it. This is probably a setting in the BIOS of the computer.
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