Need advice for backing up drives

DarkShadow

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I'm about to do a reformat and I currently have 2 X 320GB in Raid 0. I want to replace my set up with a Samsung 1tb F1 drive. I've got an enclosure for these 2 drives.

I plan on doing the following:

1) Turn off pc, remove both drives.
2) Insert new drive, start installing vista and make a few partitions.
3) Once Vista is installed, turn off pc, connect other drives in Sata ports 2+3. Because transfering 100's of GB's of data across will takes days on USB.

Would my drives just show up as storage drives or will it prompt me for a setup?
 
What I'd do..

With current system active (and raid 0 active), add new drive, create partitions, copy data to NOT the first parition

remove raid drives, reboot and install vista on partition 1

drive letters will be start at C:
 
Bledd care to elaborate?

I generally keep 4 partitions on my set up.

1) OS
2) My Docs
3) Games and Applications
4) Movies and large data files

Should I create these partitions on my new drive. Hook it up to current system. Copy files across. Remove current set up, and then start installation?
 
^they're correct, you might have to 'initialize' it in disk management -within windows

but it won't touch your raid, my gf just moved back up to my flat, so won't be on msn/ocuk at night time anymore :)
 
Had some problems last night. Being as anal I am with wires, I got rid of all extra cables from my modular PSU and I left them all at home (Sheffield).

That meant I only had 2 SATA power cables, both were connected to the current RAID set up.

It then struck me that I had another Icy box which had a SATA connection port (:D) but shortly realised the the maximum capacity it could take was 320GB.

I then did the following test:

- Left HD 1 from Raid 0 in pc.
- Took out HD 2 from Raid 0 and put it in Icybox with Sata going straight to mobo.

I powered the ext caddie and powered up my pc and viola it booted up into windows.

I tried the same again but this time, with the 1tb HD connected and just after the BIOS screen it hung saying 'something something raid5' :confused:

Tried the above scenario but this time with a 160GB HD and it worked a treat, as described above by you guys.

I'm assuming because it's a new drive, it needs formatting as it's not being detected but that said shouldn't it default to FAT32?

Cheers
 
the default filesystem is no filesystem

format as ntfs

^sounds like you made things a lot harder than they should be tbh!
 
Heh, it's all over a measley power cable :(

I have to remove all drives as the drive doesn't show up in windows. Will have a crack tonight.

Cheers Bledd
 
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