Me pc is in RAID0 but one drive is faulty and I’m getting it repaired, the drive works but it needs replacing so before I remove it I would like to transfer everything onto ONE drive, ultimately destroying the RAID array in the drives and having everything on just one drive so I can take the drive out and get it repaired and still boot.
You can sence I’m trying to avoid a format and would like to know of any programs out there that will do this without formatting.
I will make sure I have enough space to put everything onto one drive, unfortunately I don’t have enough space on my second HDD to transfur files.
Correct me if I’m wrong (I’m newish to RAID) but RAID0 joins two drives to become one drive (and the operating system will only see one physical disk as it is done by hardware?).
If the above is true, then would you not need a 3rd disk to copy everything onto as you cannot just tell the OS to copy everything onto the second drive of the RAID as it only see’s one drive?)
yeah the os only sees one drive so it cant be done manually, im trying to avoid a third hard drive as i dont have enough space on my current D: drive to copy os over. im hoping there’s some program out there that will be able to do it tho, dos programs might not have much difficulty doing it
the program will have to detect both hard drives as a raid0 and also be able to read/write to an individual drive. i don’t suppose it will be a free program but im sure it has to exist out there
It would take some work, but outside of a new drive, your best bet is compressing the data and moving it over. You could move over what you can and then burn the rest to DVD…
u just gave me an idea could i use norton ghost and backup my raid0 onto dvds and then transfer it all back onto a single drive (or a similar program) if so which program (or norton ghost version) is good for this