Moving bootable OS onto RAID0 drive

Dr_Evil

Dr_Evil

Dr_Evil

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I installed MCE with RAID drivers, on a non-RAID disk. Now I've added 2 disks in RAID0 setup to my system.

I have tried restoring a ghost image of the OS onto the RAID0 drive, as well as the Ghost -> Copy Drive. Both fail to start when booting from the RAID0. Windows seems to load, but halfway through it freezes.

Any suggestions as to how to do this?

I still have the OS on the non-RAID drive, as well as the Ghost image. On the non-Raid drive, i can actually "see" the RAID0 drive through the RAID manager application, which indicates the RAID drivers are installed correctly and working properly.
 
No I'm using a hardware RAID setup, just want to be able to "migrate" my operating system over onto the RAID drive so I don't have to re-install.
 
That's exactly what I did. Still doesn't work. It's RAID0. Did i miss something perhaps?

SATA0 - 74Gb - RAID0
SATA1 - 36Gb
SATA2 - 74Gb - RAID0
SATA4 - 250Gb

Normally the system boots from SATA1, which is the drive i took the ghost image from (after installing the RAID drivers)

then i created the RAID and in fact, when booted from SATA1 i could access and format the RAID drive. (RAID drivers working ok i guess..). I restore the Ghost image onto the RAID drive...

Now i boot from SATA0, system hangs whilst loading windows...

any thoughts?
 
nForce 950 SLI integrated RAID.

XP MCE 2005.

It's more the process how it's done what i'm interested in. I'm starting to think it may be best to just re-install my OS onto the RAID drive and stop wasting time trying to "move" my current install over....
 
Bolerus said:
or are you trying to ghost a ready set up op system onto a newly created raid
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Yes, that's what I'm trying to do. I know how to set it up through re-installing my OS, but want to "move" my already installed OS (with RAID drivers) onto the new RAID drive...
 
Again, Ghosting the image from my previous non-raid disk to my new RAID0 disk worked however completed a bit too fast imo. I booted from the new RAID0 partition, and at some point actually got it working. Windows was very irresponsive, the local disk became G: and i think things were messed quite a bit - it didn't shut down properly, sometimes took 10 minutes before ready after booting.

I've decided to stop wasting time and just re-install. Now everything is running very smooth and fast, the way i wanted it to.

Had to slip-stream my nVidia nForce RAID drivers into my XP install (i have no floppy drive) and create a custom install CD. It works good now.

thanks for all the advice !!!
 
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