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Clone a single drive from pc #1 to a RAID 1 setup on pc #2?

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Am weighing options here and entering an unknown area for me.  I have all my application installed on a  single hard drive on my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit computer (pc #1). I have a slightly newer, faster, pc (pc #2) with larger drives, the ones I would use are configured in a RAID 1 array.  If I remove the PC#1 Apps drive, put it into a USB hard drive docking station connected to PC #2, and TrueImage clone to the RAID 1 drive, will all the registry entries of the applications be written also?  I'm thinking that because of the registry entries, this would not create a fully functional application drive.

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Craig, sorry but you cannot do what you are asking using cloning as it will never work!

If you are saying that all your applications are installed on a second drive, not the the Windows OS drive, then copying that drive contents to another PC will not copy any Windows Registry entries for those applications as these are on your Windows OS drive.

See KB 19296: Acronis products cannot be used to transfer applications to different system or upgrade OS

See the following documents on how to migrate from one PC to a different PC which requires the use of the Acronis rescue media. 

When RAID drives are involved, these need to show as if they are a single drive to the rescue media in order to recover to as a target.  All current data on the target drive will be wiped out.

Windows licensing may also come into play with this type of migration, especially if you have an OEM Windows 7 license being migrated as these are tied to the hardware signature of the PC where it was activated.

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