Problem imaging my old drive onto RAID0

Laney88

Laney88

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Hey ho,

I've just got some new drives 1TB Samsung F3's as an upgrade from my 500GB WD caviar blue which was full.

So I set up my RAID 0 using the onboard intel raid controller on the rampage II extreme which appeared to be fine. I then installed w7 onto the raid to make sure i had set it up properly as I have never created a RAID array before and that all worked fine.

I thought rather than do a fresh install onto my new drives I could set up my RAID 0 then image my old drive and put the image onto the new array.

So I removed the new drives and put my old drive back in and used the windows backup image tool which took about 4 hours to back up to an external HDD and created the windows repair disk.

Put the RAID disks back in removed the old drive and configured the RAID again the same as last time. Set the boot prior to boot from CD with the repair disk in selected my image off the external drive and set it off only to find after it finishes that it boots fine with both POST screens but then as the W7 logo appears the screen flashes blue and restarts (no error msgs on the blue screen).

So boffins any thoughts? ;)

RIG IS IN SIG :)
 
My (educated?) guess.

The image from your old drive won't have any of the appropriate RAID drivers installed.

You can't boot from the old installation imaged onto the RAID array due to the lack of drivers.
 
Sounds like a plan, so is it a no go or is there any kind of work around? A guy I know at college did this but using raid 10 so we are a bit stumped with why its not working this time round. My thoughts were that the backup image might be corrupt or something and I could retry that.

But you could be right about the drivers. Cheers for the input. ;)
 
I went through something like this once upon a time. The single disk does not contain the raid drivers so the image copied to the raid array fails to boot. The answer was simple, put the raid divers on the single drive and then copy the image to the raid array :)

How? Even more simple. Connect your single drive, power on and configure the bios for raid, now boot the system from the single drive. If this works then Windows should detect the raid configuration as new hardware and ask for the driver disk. Once installed you have a single drive complete with raid driver, check to make sure it still boots then image to you array.

I don't know if this will work for everyone but it certainly worked for me.
 
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100% lack of RAID controller drivers.

The method listed to install them into the OS while running in IDE mode should work. You can likely just do a manual install with the hardware not present from the manufacturer provided drivers, just force the install.
 
Once you've got the Raid drivers installed, theres a registry fix to change them from 'start with the rest of windows' to 'start at boot time' which will get you in business.

Similar to the IDE -> AHCI registry fix.

EDIT: Similar to this post here, just a different registry key... I'll look it up when I get home

2nd EDIT: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\ Start REG_DWORD set it to 0 ('start at boot time').
 
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Thanks everyone I have had it working nicely for a while now was the lack of drivers as suggested :D

Thanks again guys!
 
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