HELP! Getting Data From 1 HD to Another?

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Have just received my 2 new raptors, (wil be used in RAID 0) and am woundering whats the best way to get data from my old harddisk, Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB?

I understand its best to remove all the HDs apart from the drive your installing vista on, so as my old WD has the windows and boot partition on, how do i go about connecting that drive back up again? As surly as soon as i have both the raptors and the old WD connected up, when i turn on my PC it probably wont boot, as there will be 2 drives with both boot and windows partitions on?, or it will only boot into windows from one drive, possibly the older WD drive.

Any ideas? i dont want to format my WD until i have copied all the folders and files i want to keep over to the 2 raptor drives
 
Install the OS on the RAID0 array with those as the only drives in the box. Attach the WD drive, boot the system and go into the BIOS. Make sure the boot priority is set to the RAID array then let the system boot fully. It'll boot off the RAID array and the WD should appear as a second hard disk (assuming you don't partition the array). Copy what you need then format the WD.
 
Ok have a problem with doing this. It it have my IDE and onboard sata set to RAID within the BIOS, the PC doesnt boot into Vista, will show the Vista loading bar, but then will show a quick flash of the blue screen, then reboot, and keeps doing this!. Any ideas??
 
Need a bit more background here...

Which drive is Vista installed on?
Have you had Vista booting successfully?
What have you done since Vista last booted OK?
 
It's vista ultimate
Vista boots fine when I just had the raid drives connected, but if I connect the my old drive the system doesn't boot into vista. The only thing I can think of is the the system is still booting from the old drive and not the raid drives?
 
Yeah sorted it now, when i enabled raid it changed the boot priority, i changed it back now and it boots fine :)
 
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