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moving windows install to raid1?

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unhappy_mage

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Any problems with moving a windows install from a single disk to a raid-1 array? I've got it installed, it knows about the raid array, and has no problem reading/writing to it. I have booted from an array before, but not with this install.

So.. would it be faster/better to just reinstall or to Ghost it over? I could do either, and stability is really the goal.

Thanks in advance.
 
Just for the sake of stability I’d be inclined to do a full reinstall. Second worst I’d ghost it for safety.

I’ve never had much luck with adding the second drive and creating the array without problems.

Luck
 
Then again Ghost hasn't behaved well with arrays for me in the past.

Maybe I'm just a Linux LiveCD proponent, but you could always boot up something like Knoppix, then copy the files over from partition to partition. This will give you access to copy the files that windows protects when it boots up, and you won't have to worry about Ghost messing up on the array. You'll need to do some fdisk maintenance from either Windows or Linux before you mess with copying the files. No need to copy the files if the MBR doesn't know which partition to look at, you know? NTFS support has gotten better in Linux and writes have been fine for me as of late.

I guess the good side is, if you switch to the array and it doesn't work, you still have your data on the single drive to work with.
 
LightningCrash said:
NTFS support has gotten better in Linux and writes have been fine for me as of late.
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Actually, I use *nix almost exclusively (although Guild Wars is making me think about switching :rolleyes: ) and NTFS support isn't ready for primetime. My brother runs a dualboot system, and NTFS writes on files over 200 or so MB tend to fail. That does no good, especially considering the distribution of file sizes on this machine. Most storage space is in files 1gb+, with most files 100kb-. This is an odd distribution, but there you have it.

Also, would that get the MBR right? Anyways, I guess I'll just reinstall. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
alternatively, if the single drive and the RAID1 were the same exact size, you could just run dd. this would copy the MBR and everything.
 
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