Copy RAID0 array to new single disk without RAID hardware
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 11:51 am
Scenario:
Goal, to be performed on the new PC:
- Dell XPS 700 w/ NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI RAID controller on MB
- Three 320GB Seagate ST3320633AS Barracuda 7200.9
- Drives on MB's SATA 0, SATA 1, and SATA 2
- RAID 0 stripe set on two of the drives (I don't know which two), using the motherboard's NVIDIA controller/BIOS
- Resulting (RAID 0) drive contains the OS (Windows XP)
- The above Dell motherboard is dead and no replacement is available
- I am confident that all three drives (including the RAID 0 stripe set) are healthy
Goal, to be performed on the new PC:
- determine which 2 of the 3 drives are the RAID 0 stripe set
- de-stripe those 2 drives into a single drive image, preserving all partition tables, MBR, etc.
- copy the resulting de-striped image to a new physical drive
- copy the third (non-RAID) drive to a new physical drive
- preserve original 3 drives (from dead system)
- boot from the 2 new physical drives in a non-RAID environment