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    retaining RAID settings?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by psicicle, Dec 24, 2008.

  1. psicicle

    psicicle Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I am upgrading my hard drive in my NP9262, using this method:

    Step 1: Check your existing HDD to find out the interface type (PATA or SATA)

    Step 2: Buy a compatible HDD plus a suitable USB enclosure

    Step 3: Go to Acronis and download the trial version of TrueImage. Install and create the recovery CD.

    Step 4: Put the new HDD into the enclosure and connect to the computer

    Step 5: Boot the computer using the Acronis CD and then select the Clone option

    Step 6: Clone the old HDD onto the new one

    Step 7: Take the old HDD out of the computer and replace with the new one from the enclosure

    Step 8: Boot the computer. Everything should be as it was except for more free space.



    I am using RAID 1 right now- will this setting be preserved? I will use one of the old HDDs as a third hard drive also, will that screw anything up?


    Will I just have to add a step where I configure the 2 new hard drives to be in RAID 1 in the system utilities? Will this still work fine with only one of the two original hard drives in the USB enclosure?

    Thanks
     
    psicicle, Dec 24, 2008
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  2. psicicle

    psicicle Notebook Enthusiast

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    bump......
     
    psicicle, Dec 24, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Your D901C only sues SATA notebook harddrives.
    Please note that the D901C can only use standard height 9.5mm thick laptop drives.
    The 12.5mm Fujitsu 500gb drive and the Hitachi 5k500 will not work, as they will not fit.

    The Raid manager is completely independent of the main bios, so if you upgrade the harddrives, you need to format both with the raid manager, and than create an array on both or all three drives with the manager.
    Than you can install your operating system

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Dec 24, 2008
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    Noterev Notebook Consultant

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    I'm not sure you need to use Acronis at all. I'm assuming you want to begin mirroring from an existing hard drive and avoid starting from scratch if at all possible.

    This is interesting because you have three HD bays and two good RAID 1 mirrors which gives you one to play with and one solid backup in case something goes wrong.

    For one thing, each one of your mirrors are bootable and will retain the RAID 1 setup.

    What I'm wondering is, if you can simply install the two new HD's and restore from the old one. And if a low level format is needed prior to restore or if the controller will take care of that. What your raid controller will allow you to do is something Sager or your documentation should to tell you.

    There are a lot of different strategies out there but you should find out and use your motherboards existing capabilities to it's fullest. Contact Sager.
     
    Noterev, Dec 24, 2008
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