Re: Un-RAID on ICH8R?


All I can suggest to you, is what I would do myself. Buy a disk
big enough to hold the data, use my copy of Partition Magic, to
copy the data and partition from the RAID0 array, to the new disk.
Disconnect the RAID array, before booting with the standalone
disk for the first time. The assumption here, is that the
RAID driver that is already installed, would not have a problem
booting the single new drive. (You have to disconnect the RAID
array, because when you clone a boot disk, the original disk
cannot be present for the first boot of the cloned disk. Once the
cloned disk has been booted just once, you can shut down and reconnect
the RAID array if you want.)

Now, what could go wrong with that ? Does Partition Magic
support working with a RAID array ? I've only tested it,
moving partitions from one single drive, to another single
drive. I might need to find another utility, to handle the
"RAID as source" scenario.

I have successfully use PM to copy partitions from one disk to another where the
destination drive was an ICH9R based RAID array. I believe it must operate at
the BIOS level or something because I am certain there is no built in support
for this chip set in PM8.

Having said all that I cannot recommend Partition Magic any more, despite being
a reliable and useful tool that I have used for 12 years or more, Symantecs
decision to let it wither on the vine means it cannot be recommended. I now use
Acronis Disk Director Suite v10 and this is admirable, having support for Vista
NTFS partitions (which PM8 does not) and seems to work just as well. Definitely
recommended.

DD10 also works with my ICH9R RAID array but I do have to use it in "safe mode"
when booting from CD media. I don't know why but thought it's worth mentioning.

Hth,

--
Boo

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