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Computer nerd help needed
OK, I will try to keep this short but include the necessary information.
 I currently have a matched pair of 1 TB hard drives running as a mirrored RAID using the Intel Rapid Storage Technology with Option ROM 12.0.01783 that is on the motherboard. There is just 250 GB on the current drive C: boot RAID. I want to move the system to a new 500 GB SSD. I am wanting to make the SSD the boot drive and move any non-necessary files to the RAID drives used as a storage space. So far no cloning program will move that boot partition to the SSD. Do any of you know of a way to make the SSD the boot drive without re-installing Win 7 from scratch and re-installing all the programs? I really want to avoid that. I have the full version of Acroness that is a year old and that did not work. I tried the utility that came with the SSD and it fails. One suggestion was to backup the entire hard drive and verify the backup is good. Do a fresh install of Windows on the SSD and then restore the backup. That does not seem like it will work. I am hoping the bran trust has a answer. I will buy a clone program if it will do the job. I want to move the boot partition to make the system much faster.
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03-06-2015, 06:49 PM
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The Unsettler
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Not sure why you think the backup / restore method will not work.
That's kinda why it's there.
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03-06-2015, 09:25 PM
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Use a free copy of Macrium Reflect. I have cloned several laptop drives to SSD's using it. Cloned the drive, swap, reboot, voila.... The overall capacity of the HDD's exceeded the SSD, but actual data fit on the SSD just fine.
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03-06-2015, 11:00 PM
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Burn the fire.
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Better to do the fresh install via backup/restore. Find a good guide for installing win 7 on SSD to ensure the right optimizations are enabled. I've got essentially the same thing going. 160GB system drive, 1TB for files and storage. You can recover the physical drive, not the SSD.
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03-07-2015, 12:55 AM
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Because you're using a RAID array, your options are very limited...
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03-07-2015, 09:45 AM
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break the mirror and clone the partition and recreate the mirror after.
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03-07-2015, 10:05 AM
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