will-wtf Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Hi, I would like to clone my single hard drive from my system and put it onto a raid0 setup, how could I achieve this? I have had a look over 7x12 episode but there doesn't seem to be a way! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Setup the RAID, image the RAID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 If the raid is setup properly, it would be seamless to the OS and the OS would think it as a single drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Is it a hardware raid or software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Is it a hardware raid or software? Good call. It wouldn't work in a software raid only setup, because the OS is what controls the software raid, and rebooting to the software raid doesn't work because the raid exists only to the OS that created it. Hardware raid on the other hand is what you would want to have setup, as the OS would see it as a single drive and you could then copy whatever you want to it. Depending on the OS, you also cant image the running OS to another drive unless booting off an additional drive or removable media since the current disc would be in use by the OS itself, although I think you get around this in *nix/linux based systems because you can create ramdrives on the fly and mount the system in ram to then copy from disk, but I'm not 100% sure about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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