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    Need help Upgrading 2 HDD's in Raid 0 to larger Raid 0

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Asheth, Apr 5, 2008.

  1. Asheth

    Asheth Notebook Enthusiast

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    Currently I have 2 100 GB HDD set in Raid 0 I want to upgrade with 2 Hitachi TravelStar 7200 RPM 200GB HDD's. What I am unsure of is how to do the transfer with the raid setup.

    My questions are when I do the transfer the transfer would only be on 1 harddrive instead of 2 as it is with a raid 0 setup. I have norton ghost 12.0 when I was looking at it and tried to create my own bootable disk it said that it didnt have all the drivers for a 64-bit OS.

    Can someone give me some advice on the best approach. So I know I would have to clone but I dont want to lose anything and when I turn my notebook on everything is as it was but just bigger harddrives.

    Any help ?
     
    Asheth, Apr 5, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    you are probably not going to be able to clone the drives
    I have a raid 0 array in my laptop, and what I did, was I backed up all of the data on my external harddrive.
    Then I removed the two harddrives.
    When you install the two new drives, you have to enter into the raid manager, which comes on right after the bios boots. On my system, I have to press TAB to enter into the raid manager.
    In the manager, you will be given the option of raid 0, raid 1, or raid 5, or spanning mode.
    Select Raid 0.
    Then select drive 0 and drive 1
    then hit create array
    it takes a minute
    and then you have to hit save and apply and then exit the bios.
    Then you have to put the windows installation disks in.
    Then boot and load the operating system, and then put all of the data from your other drives onto your new harddrives.

    If you have 2 x 100GB 7K200 drives, you will notice a 0 speed improvement if you switch to 2 x 200GB 7200rpm drives.
    The 100Gb 7K200 has one platter rather than two. Which means, data density is the same, and thus bandwidth and speed of the drive is the same.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Apr 5, 2008
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    Wiz33 Notebook Deity

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  4. Asheth

    Asheth Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does this have Vista 64 support which is the problem with Ghost I just tried to boot from cd that came with it didnt work. Thanks for the help.

    PS. Doing this method I wont lose anything and everything will be setup as it was before with the exception of bigger hard drives?
     
    Asheth, Apr 5, 2008
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    Do it but back up!
     
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  6. Asheth

    Asheth Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh yea I have backup software. Well norton ghost but as I am doing research now Acronis True Image is better and has 64bit support and it seems to handle a raid array with little problems I am doing more searching right now.
     
    Asheth, Apr 6, 2008
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    No back up Data! Running RAID 0 is not RAID, Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks or as the creator of the concept called it Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. This meets neither criteria, their is a joke in the Tech world. It is RAID Zero! Zero redundancy I mean come on the entire naming convention is bastardized. Just my 2 cents!
     
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    Yea I just read about that lol
     
    Asheth, Apr 6, 2008
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