Help doing raid 0

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Ok guys, I've got a spare drive which was for the Wii, but as the Wii's hardly being used, i want to add it to my pc and do raid 0. I had this set up before the Nintendo Wii came.
The thing is, i don't want to reinstall windows and reinstall everything. I think i've heard about using images, but i don't really know how to do it.

Can anyone explain what i have to do etc (I couldn't find this is the sticky'd FAQ)?
 
Have a look at Acronis, very easy to use. Make a bootable CD/USB whichever is your niche, then boot to the CD and run the program. Here is a vid of someone using Acronis to copy one hard drive to another:

 
He wanted some advice on some imaging, and was showing an example of a piece of software he could use
 
They are both samsung F1's 500GB, the 1 from Wii was in my pc in raid 0 before, but i bought external case and reformatted and went back to normal.
I want to put it bk in my PC and use it in raid 0, but i don't want to reinstall everything, got so many games on it.
Is it possible to make and image, then put into raid 0, then restore the image over the drive? Would this work?
 
You'll just have to store the image on a external drive before setting up the Raid array.
Using the software above you can also make/burn a bootable recovery disc to restore your previously stored image to your Raid 0 array. :)

Even making a Win7 backup (again to an external drive) would be a solution. Part of the operation is making a bootable recovery disc.

EDIT. the vid actually shows the same software making a CLONE of an existing drive.... you want to make a sector by sector backup (or image) of your current boot drive
 
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Ok so i'm using windows 7 image utility thingy, making an image back up to an external hdd. Then i just reinstall windows, then once resinstalled restore the backup?
 
seekdestroy said:
Ok so i'm using windows 7 image utility thingy, making an image back up to an external hdd. Then i just reinstall windows, then once resinstalled restore the backup?
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Using Win7

Control Panel>System and Security>backup and Restore

left side

Create a system image

click here to create a full system image of your current boot drive including your files that you want to keep (that's why you'll need a external drive big enough for the job or loads of DVD's.... lol)

under "create system image" is another option

Create a system repair disc

Use this option to burn and create a system repair disc

Once you have created your Raid array, boot to this repair disc and restore your image to the new array, ( not forgetting to connect your external storage device first, if using) which I assume will be your boot device. No need to reinstall Win 7 first.

Note : it needs to be a FULL boot drive image because it will then contain your MBR (master boot record)

The Acronis True Image software does the same job and some people prefer to use this over the Win7 software.
 
Ok, managed to make an image and recovery disk, i used my NAS to put the image on, lol. was a little slow cus its not gigabit. Just gotta set up the raid now, thanks for your help :)
 
Ok, image restored usin the recovery disk. However, windows fails to boot, the startup repair also fails, anyone knows whats going on?
It tries to boot, the windows loading thing appears then i think its a blue screen, before restarting.
 
Hmm, ive repaired the mbr and the bcd. Just trying to rebuild the bcd now, still no luck :(
I'm wondering whether i should just install windows 7 and try to recover the image, or just try recovering the image again using the recovery disk.
 
rebuilding the bcd found 1 windows installation, but same blue screen at boot up. Same with safe mode too. So I'm going to windows first and check its work and not the array set up etc.
*EDIT*
At the start of the windows installation, it shows 2 drives, 2 x 465.8GB and shows one having windows installed.
I think when recovering the image, it said something like restoring partitions, I'm wondering if is what caused the problem
 
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Well i wasn't installing, i was restoring from a windows image back up. I've got windows 7 installed now, going to use acronis to access my windows 7 backup and see if it will work with acronis or something
 
yes i know, but when u make the raid array in the bios you need to install the raid drivers on windows setup from a usb source. you will find that it shows 2 hard drives on bootup to start but as soon as windows starts it will BSOD
 
Ok, how and when do i install these drivers? and wheres best place to get them?

*EDIT*
Theres a part saying Load Drivers before choosing restore image, is this correct?
 
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yes this is correct, just google your motherboard and raid drivers, put them on a floppy/usb stick or external
 
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