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July 2nd 07, 06:22 AM
What I would like to do is move my Windows OS from the Raid 0 Array to a SATA
single drive. What I have encountered in attempting to do this is nothing but
problems. Thus here I am.
Currently I have two Raid 0 Arrays. The Windows OS is set up on a 25 GB
partition on the first partition. The thinking behind this was by putting the
OS on a small partition it would be easier to backup and restore. There are
two other partitions of about 10 GB each where my data is stored and one more
partition of approximately 420 GB where video and audio files are stored.
The second Array has a single partition of approximately 500 GB and is where
the program files and one of the sets of backup files for the data files are
located.
As you might have surmised, each of the two arrays has a pair of 250 GB
drives. Since I have been getting a number of bad clusters on the second
array I have decided to replace the two arrays with two single 500 GB SATA
drives. If at all possible I would like to transfer the OS, data and programs
to the new drives without having to reinstall and update everything. The
Windows installation disk I have has only SP1 on it. The number of updates to
Windows alone even using a DLS connection, the last time I did this, took me
almost an hour to do.
The Seagate drives I purchased came with a program called DiscWizard which
has partitioning, formatting and the capability of transferring the operating
system from the old system on to the new drive. Since I would prefer to keep
the roughly the same partitions, I used DiscWizard for the purpose of
partitioning and formatting the drives. Using Norton’s Ghost I copied each of
my old drives onto each of the respective partitions of the new drive
partitions. If you are familiar with Ghost you know that the copy process has
the ability to transfer the MBR (Master Boot Record) along with all the files
in a format compatible with what is required for a boot drive. Well almost.
It has not worked for me.
After setting up the new drives, removing the old drives, reconfiguring the
Bios, and restarting the system I got the normal Windows Splash Screen with
the black background. However, I did not get the second Splash Screen,
“Windows is Starting Up”, message with the blue screen. Instead I got the
same blue screen with the banner “Windows Home Edition” slightly below and to
the right of center. At that point Windows from what I could do and see
locked up. The only thing that would unlock it is the reset button or the
power switch.
Putting the old drives back in and reconfiguring the Bios to boot off my new
OS partition, gets Windows to the desktop and paints the icons there as valid
short cuts. This is more than I would have expected from a boot from Drive I.
But after doing that it consistently reports a svchost.exe error that
effectively stops anything else from getting done.
Thinking that after one half way successful boot from the new drive that
removing the arrays and doing another boot from it would work, only produced
the same result of the original effort.
My computer system at this point works fine. All I want to do is back it up
and restore it on two new drives. Before giving advice I would hope you would
have some understanding about why I have had the problems I have had to date.
Spending hours experimenting with other approaches without understanding what
has gone wrong so far seems rather pointless and not the approach I would
prefer to take at this time. Just as an after thought, I did remove the raid
controller card from my computer as part of the array removal process.
As far as other resources in dealing with this problem, I do have an external
250 GB drive and Partition Magic. On the surface this would seem to be a
simple problem. Given that Microsoft required a floppy disk to install the
drivers for my RAID card at the time I set my system up it may not be. If
this situation has not changed I would take that as a very bad sign as to
what it is I want to do. Hopefully I have made a big ado about nothing and
someone will have a workable suggestion for the problem presented here. If
you happen to be that person, let me thank you in advance for your assistance.
You will get a post thanks as well, this problem really has me stumped.
Rich
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single drive. What I have encountered in attempting to do this is nothing but
problems. Thus here I am.
Currently I have two Raid 0 Arrays. The Windows OS is set up on a 25 GB
partition on the first partition. The thinking behind this was by putting the
OS on a small partition it would be easier to backup and restore. There are
two other partitions of about 10 GB each where my data is stored and one more
partition of approximately 420 GB where video and audio files are stored.
The second Array has a single partition of approximately 500 GB and is where
the program files and one of the sets of backup files for the data files are
located.
As you might have surmised, each of the two arrays has a pair of 250 GB
drives. Since I have been getting a number of bad clusters on the second
array I have decided to replace the two arrays with two single 500 GB SATA
drives. If at all possible I would like to transfer the OS, data and programs
to the new drives without having to reinstall and update everything. The
Windows installation disk I have has only SP1 on it. The number of updates to
Windows alone even using a DLS connection, the last time I did this, took me
almost an hour to do.
The Seagate drives I purchased came with a program called DiscWizard which
has partitioning, formatting and the capability of transferring the operating
system from the old system on to the new drive. Since I would prefer to keep
the roughly the same partitions, I used DiscWizard for the purpose of
partitioning and formatting the drives. Using Norton’s Ghost I copied each of
my old drives onto each of the respective partitions of the new drive
partitions. If you are familiar with Ghost you know that the copy process has
the ability to transfer the MBR (Master Boot Record) along with all the files
in a format compatible with what is required for a boot drive. Well almost.
It has not worked for me.
After setting up the new drives, removing the old drives, reconfiguring the
Bios, and restarting the system I got the normal Windows Splash Screen with
the black background. However, I did not get the second Splash Screen,
“Windows is Starting Up”, message with the blue screen. Instead I got the
same blue screen with the banner “Windows Home Edition” slightly below and to
the right of center. At that point Windows from what I could do and see
locked up. The only thing that would unlock it is the reset button or the
power switch.
Putting the old drives back in and reconfiguring the Bios to boot off my new
OS partition, gets Windows to the desktop and paints the icons there as valid
short cuts. This is more than I would have expected from a boot from Drive I.
But after doing that it consistently reports a svchost.exe error that
effectively stops anything else from getting done.
Thinking that after one half way successful boot from the new drive that
removing the arrays and doing another boot from it would work, only produced
the same result of the original effort.
My computer system at this point works fine. All I want to do is back it up
and restore it on two new drives. Before giving advice I would hope you would
have some understanding about why I have had the problems I have had to date.
Spending hours experimenting with other approaches without understanding what
has gone wrong so far seems rather pointless and not the approach I would
prefer to take at this time. Just as an after thought, I did remove the raid
controller card from my computer as part of the array removal process.
As far as other resources in dealing with this problem, I do have an external
250 GB drive and Partition Magic. On the surface this would seem to be a
simple problem. Given that Microsoft required a floppy disk to install the
drivers for my RAID card at the time I set my system up it may not be. If
this situation has not changed I would take that as a very bad sign as to
what it is I want to do. Hopefully I have made a big ado about nothing and
someone will have a workable suggestion for the problem presented here. If
you happen to be that person, let me thank you in advance for your assistance.
You will get a post thanks as well, this problem really has me stumped.
Rich
--
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