Striping 2 drives, copying evering thing over - nub :)

NachT

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Hey guys, i'll explain a bit before i get to the point... or you could scroll down to the point :)

I baught a raptor, thought it was broke, done a whats it called so they send me a new one, figured it was a sata 2 raptor so it wasn't broke, stuck with 2 drives, cba to sell one cos known my luck somthing will be "wrong" with it blah....... there we go long story short lol.

My current set-up i have just the one raptor, so i'm wanting to stripe them both, may aswell, it's that or use it as a paper weight.

I'm wanting to know if it's possible to take an exact image of my one drive as it is ( every thing from what mouse icon i have, keyboard key speed settings, my windows XP key, valadation (sp?) etc... ) then format the drives, build the raid, then put the image back onto the disks that was on my original one disk.

So i wouldn't have to change a thing, wouldn't need to buy a new key, wouldn't need to change any settings, every thing... exactly, the same :)

Is this possible?

Also on a quick question, i'm a nub at raiding, and i see when in the raid options there is a byte size i think it was called? e.g. an 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 byte striped raid? Could somone explain this please.


Thanks guys, much appriciate any response at all :D
 
Yo, thanks for replay :)

Now I know about the different sized K stripes :D

I can't find any information on the thread about replicating your HD thought, i'd realy like to know if it's possible, and if my CD key, registry etc would be replicated aswell.


Cheers

/NachT
 
I'm pretty sure it's *possible* (though I've not done this exact move myself... yet), but in any case you'd have to make absolutely sure your installations has the neccesary RAID drivers installed *before* you start moving things around. Otherwise you might end up not being able to boot the image once it's moved as it won't support the array/controller! To actually perform the move, use something like Acronis Trueimage (or perhaps a Linux livecd if you're prepared to deal with more technical detail and learn a few things you might not have known in the process.)
 
Thanks for the suggestion,

I have a 3rd storage HD to put the image onto, then i'm guessing i'd just use a bootable disk to put the image from the storage drive onto the 2 raid'ed drives.
 
Hey ByteJuggler, I used that program you suggested and it worked great! :D

The only problem is, when i took the image of the single drive then restored the image onto the striped drives, i have half of my raid unallocated space. I don't think it's possible to allocate that space onto the primary partition?

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8907/untitled8nv.jpg

The reason i've shown the boot file is, well... all works well, untill i attach my storage HD then the system trys to boot from that HD, all drives are in the right order in the bios. How would i go about making my system disk boot instead of the storage disk, as it being in a raid the locations are different *sigh*

Also, i think when i retored the image back across the raid, it only went onto one of the 2 drives, as i can't see any more performance than i had before, is there a way to check how much data there is on each drive in a raid 0 ?

Thanks :p

/NachT
 
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