SATA IDE to RAID 0

[Kumomo]

Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but here it is anyway.

I've been researching ways to image a regular IDE non-raid SSD to a Raid 0 SSD configuration. And from what I've read some people have had success where as others just say it is not possible.

This is what I've tried so far, but I have been unsuccessful as of yet.

I used Acronis Image to backup my SSD sector by sector onto another hard drive.

I then boot into BIOS and change my storage configurations into RAID and create my SSDs to run in RAID 0. I run the Acronis Image boot up USB and reimage the file onto the RAID 0 configuration with sector by sector settings. When the computer reboots, I get an error message saynig it cannot read the RAID configuration...

So what I've tried next was to reimage the files onto the RAID 0 configuration but this time without doing it sector by sector. I get an error message the this time saying the Boot Manager is missing. So I loaded up my Windows 7 DVD and it was able to fix that error. Windows 7 begins loading but the computer blue screens before actually getting into the OS.

I'm assuming Windows 7 is trying to the load the IDE drivers to read the windows files but since it is in RAID it doesn't work?? I'm not sure actually...need help!

Hope you guys can give me some insight. Thanks for the help!

TLDR; Trying to convert SATA IDE image to RAID 0 configuration, having problems...is this possible or not possible?

 

[xxEIEIOxx]

Possible but difficult. Was the single disk AHCI or legacy IDE? What controller? I have done this with onboard Intel. You will need to go from AHCI to RAID with the Intel drivers already installed. You will need the registry entries from a RAID machine already included in your backup image for it to boot. Other controllers would work similarly but the key will be to have the drivers and registry entries already in the image.