Replacing Secondary HDD

Porkie · 5 Jul 2012 at 09:40

Hi,

I am running out of space on my secondary drive. It is a Mechanical drive, about 500GB in size. What I would like to do is get two 1TB drives and add them in RAID 0. Then I would like to copy everything off of the old 500GB drive onto the new drives. Then re-assign the drive letters in windows.

Is that the best way to go about this, or is there another way? Ideally I would like to do it without having to re-install anything, particualry the whole operating system.

Thanks.

mp260767 · 5 Jul 2012 at 10:29

as long as you don't have any programs located on the secondary drive you should be fine.

doyll · 5 Jul 2012 at 11:00

Do you backup your system?

moogle · 5 Jul 2012 at 12:00

Either install the HDD and copy the files over and then connect it to the smaller drive's sata port and it should have the same drive name.

Or use a tool that allows you to mirror the drive outside windows and then also connect it in the same port that your old drive used and it should take up the same drive name.

rpstewart · 5 Jul 2012 at 15:07

Porkie said:
Hi,

I am running out of space on my secondary drive. It is a Mechanical drive, about 500GB in size. What I would like to do is get two 1TB drives and add them in RAID 0. Then I would like to copy everything off of the old 500GB drive onto the new drives. Then re-assign the drive letters in windows.

Is that the best way to go about this, or is there another way? Ideally I would like to do it without having to re-install anything, particualry the whole operating system.

Thanks.

Why RAID0? If it's just for storage it adds unnecessary complexity and risk with little gain.

If you do want to go down the RAID route and haven't got your SATA controller running in RAID mode already then you're going to need to hack the registry to allow you to swap the SATA drivers to the RAID ones.