Moving Windows then Raiding Help

tbyeah

tbyeah

tbyeah

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Ok, I have a 2TB Seagate Barracuda with games installed on it, and 2 120GB Kingston V300s. One is brand new, one has Windows and some programs on it.#

What I want to do it move Windows and files to my HDD so both are blank, set them up in RAID 0, and then move Windows back to the RAID array.

Please help? I'm not sure what I can do to move the contents of my SSD to my HDD including Windows, I'd much rather not reinstall.

Thanks.
 
Hard drive clone would be the best way to do that, you have to make sure its something that will run from DOS so it includes hidden system and boot files, obviously its not going to be able to restore those whilst they are in use.

One way to possibly do it is use a blank spare drive to clone to, and then boot from that drive whilst you set up the raid on the two SSD's, and then clone to those once booted off the spare.

Ive used this is the past to backup my whole PC to another hard drive, but never restored, so not sure it would be much help, its free so gotta be worth a try:

http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm
 
Right now I've got one with Windows/programs and other for Origin. I don't have a spare drive so I think I'll just leave it as is.
 
tbyeah said:
Right now I've got one with Windows/programs and other for Origin. I don't have a spare drive so I think I'll just leave it as is.
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How about temp partition that other drive for now to create a virtual drive which you can clone windows etc too ?

Of course if you have enough free space left on it.
 
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