Moving Win 7 installation w/ Acronis?

GreenMint · 21 May 2009 at 01:05

Hey guys, just a small query, I bought a vertex SSD the other day, but only a 30gb one, so once I had W7 installed, everything I wanted installed etc, I was presented with a lovely fat "out of space" message, so have ordered 2 x 750GB Samsung F1's to run in RAID0, I have used Acronis True Image to fully image the drive, once I have the Samsungs installed and in RAID0, is it going to be safe to put the Image straight to the partition i'll make for the OS, or could that make things get very messy?

-Cheers

GreenMint · 21 May 2009 at 12:05

One other thing tha sprung to mind, Im still on the Acronis 15 day trial, thi is al fully functional and wouldn't run into any walls at all would it? :eek:

m4cc45 · 21 May 2009 at 14:10

If you're talking about imaging the SSD to a RAID0 array then I don't think it would work you may try and repair it using the Windows 7 media but because it's using RAID you'll hit problems.

It's worth a go but I don't think it'll work.

M.

Django x2 · 21 May 2009 at 15:06

I think you'll fall over if I'm honest. Some of it might depend on if you can configure your RAID through a managed BIOS (rather than through the OS).

Worth a shot though.

GreenMint · 21 May 2009 at 17:24

Yeah, the RAID will be onboard and set in the bios, I'm not 100% sure it'll work, buti'm guessing it can't do any harm to try..

Can it?

Flukester · 22 May 2009 at 06:42

the trick to moving non-raid to raid is getting the driver / raid controller installed into windows before imaging the disks.

like others said with w7 it prolly has raid drivers built in so a repair would most likely work...

so I would create a raid array on the 2 HDs, then boot up on SSD and let windows see them... then just shut down and image. should work fine and dandy

(thats assuming your PC will still boot w7 once you have set controller in BIOS to RAID mode, often it won't)

GreenMint · 22 May 2009 at 10:22

Thanks flukester, wil give it a shot.

The RAID is currently enabled, but no arrays formed at all, so it'll be touch and go (oo-er!) after the array is set up, at the worst i'lll reinstall it all again, but it would be nice to not have to!

Cheers for the help