Best way to move OS from RAID0 SSD to single SSD

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I'm looking to break my RAID0 and move my current Windows 7 OS install to a single SSD currently in that RAID0, using the second for my HTPC I'm currently working on. Is there a safe way to do that? I'm thinking it should be easier than HDD -> SSD since the drivers would be the same, but I'm not sure.

Thanks.
 
Very easy actually get the program acronis trueimage 2011 or 2012.Uninstall intel rst raid drivers
Image your raid 0 os . Take out drives and install new ssd and restore image to single drive . Ive done plenty times also acronis fixes the ssd alignment
 
the_real_7 said:
Very easy actually get the program acronis trueimage 2011 or 2012.Uninstall intel rst raid drivers
Image your raid 0 os . Take out drives and install new ssd and restore image to single drive . Ive done plenty times also acronis fixes the ssd alignment
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Any way to do this for free? It looks like the trial version doesn't allow you to backup and only can restore.
 
Keep in mind that when you switch your BIOS settings from RAID to AHCI after you break the RAID, you will have to make sure you follow the procedure to make sure the proper drivers installed you you will get a BSOD.
 
the_real_7 said:
Very easy actually get the program acronis trueimage 2011 or 2012.Uninstall intel rst raid drivers
Image your raid 0 os . Take out drives and install new ssd and restore image to single drive . Ive done plenty times also acronis fixes the ssd alignment
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I cloned the RAID to a USB3 HDD, and I got a BSOD booting to it. Do I have to clone to a SATA HDD instead?

Edit: Yea I guess you can't do that. Used my SATA drive instead and did some swapping around using Macrium, and everything appears to be working well. Thanks, guys.
 
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tinate said:
Any way to do this for free? It looks like the trial version doesn't allow you to backup and only can restore.
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you can quite easily do this with dd on windows or linux.

Boot a computer with your raid array as a secondary drive (don't be booted off of the array you want to migrate while doing this).

then just run dd, with your raid array as source, and your single disk as target. It's simple and fast. When it's done, you will want to do a reboot, and then grow the partition if the target drive was larger than your raid array (this wont work if the target drive is smaller than your raid array).

Here is a link for dd on windows:
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

ps. you will want to have bs=1048576 to make it work at optimum speed :)
 
If the RAID0 is controlled by hardware or a mobo 'fakeraid' you could boot PartedMagic and use Clonezilla to create an image of the array. I would probably mount the image (read-only!) after you create it, just to make sure everything came out ok.
 
Use the built-in Windows Backup & Restore software, it is free and works great. Don't change the mode on your motherboard, just leave it in RAID mode, it will act like AHCI. You can still break the array after you make the backup, but you don't need to disable the RAID mode in BIOS.

dd, even from a Linux Live CD, is very good. But if your not comfortable with that, the Windows Backup & Restore will walk you through everything.
 
Master_Pain said:
Backup, and reformat, quicker, easier, and you have a fresh O/S.
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longer, and you have to reconfigure everything. (and it shows you had absolutely ZERO backup plan in place). I don't see what the point of backing up is if you're going to reinstall your OS. sure you can have a backup plan that only covers documents, but having one that covers programs and system settings is much more useful.

don't change your controller mode. copy the files or image to an external device. break up the raid0 to a single drive. copy the files from the external device to the single drive. it's as simple as that.
 
mwroobel said:
Keep in mind that when you switch your BIOS settings from RAID to AHCI after you break the RAID, you will have to make sure you follow the procedure to make sure the proper drivers installed you you will get a BSOD.
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I don't think there's any point in changing from raid to AHCI if you run a single disk.
 
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