transfering data from IDE to striped RAID 0?

[PanVulcon]

hi all,

i am wanting to transfer windows xp and personel files from my existing IDE drive to two formated striped sata drives in RAID 0.

how should i do this? - i.e - should i boot from the IDE drive and then drag and drop the entire drive over to the striped SATA's or cant this be done?

thanks

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

download and use either a bootcd with a lot of useful stuff, like partion copy.
or use a bootdisk with ntfs support, because regular bootdisks only have support for fat32 and older.

[djbbenn]

I would just put the IDE drive into the computer and drag and drop to the RAID drives. Thats how I did it when I transfered from drive to drive.

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

how do you managed to copy your windows-installation so?
what i now there is a thing called windows file protection thats prevent such things.

[djbbenn]

I didn't copy windows...why would you do that? Just install windows on the new drive and then put the stuff from the old drive on the new.

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

hi all,

i am wanting to transfer windows xp and personel files from my existing IDE drive to two formated striped sata drives in RAID 0.

how should i do this? - i.e - should i boot from the IDE drive and then drag and drop the entire drive over to the striped SATA's or cant this be done?

thanks

as he say, he wants to copy xp to, and thats probably because he wants to use his installed programs after the transfer.

[djbbenn]

Yes I see that, but that will be hard an not worth the hassel. It will be much easier to install XP on the new disk then have a nice clean drive, and then put all your saved data on their. He can easily take his saved..what ever he has saved, if its games or profiles to something...and put it on the new drive afterwards. Thats what I am saying, as to how to copy the operating system, don't really know. Cause you can't do it in windows do to the "file is in use" thing.

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

i think you are missing one thing, the fact that many programs/games need reg-keys to work,
but it is only to test and see if the games work without the keys.

[djbbenn]

They don't need regkeys if they are saved games or something. Things like Atitool or systool use reg keys for certain things but thigs like them are easily set back to what they were. I redo my computer every so often for something to do or cause my anitvirus is expired. Its a pain with some things but most I can save to a disk and put it back on later. I really don't care how he does it, thats just they way I would do it. Cause then you don't have to worry about spyware that was on there and its a fresh install, so the computer is working nice. If gets a way to copy the whole drive to another, all power to him. The only way I know of copying a whole drive is a little gizmo that connects to drives to geather, I think its call disk jocky. But it wont work on a raid array.

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

Here are a link to the program/bootcd im talking about.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/56309

its like a mini windows with everything on a cd containing program for troubleshoting and maintenance.

[djbbenn]

Thanks for the link. So basiclly it runs form the CD and your ram and acts like a OS. Then because your not using the files on your drive, you can copy them, say to another drive. I see what your getting at now. Almost like using a dos promt to copy from to another. It would take a hell of a long time. I still think a fresh OS would be a better choice, but for some this might be better. I'll have to try it with my old system one day. :D

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

its superb for example a disk-crash, because it can search, try to repair and save the files it can.

[djbbenn]

Hmm ya...you can do that with the XP disk to some extent.

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

trust me, i tried as soon as yesterday, the xp disk is like a needle in the universe to compare.
the xp disk cant do anything else then just try on its own to repair, it cant move your data to a working disk and so on.

[djbbenn]

Lol...so true.

-Dan

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

it saved my life last week, therefore all this lecture over it :D

[Dippyskoodlez]

BartPE rocks... I have a special version... that is probably beyond illegal, crossing into stuff beyond that :o

easy password resets, etc... probably most dangerous cd ever...

I dont think just dragging and dropping all the files will do a working windows install. you have to setup the MBR, and windows will freak out when it sees a raid setup instead of a normal ide drive.

just reinstall.

Try norton ghost.. that'll work ;)

[bcgone5150]

BartPE rocks... I have a special version... that is probably beyond illegal, crossing into stuff beyond that :o

easy password resets, etc... probably most dangerous cd ever...

I dont think just dragging and dropping all the files will do a working windows install. you have to setup the MBR, and windows will freak out when it sees a raid setup instead of a normal ide drive.

just reinstall.

Try norton ghost.. that'll work ;)


What is this "BartPE special version" cd and where can I get it. I work in the IT industry and have to get around user passwords and things of this nature when the user losses the passwords and when people accidently change them or a person quits the job and changes the passwords to be pricks before they go and things of this nature.

[Betty (Kung Pow)]

Here are a link to the program/bootcd im talking about.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/56309

its like a mini windows with everything on a cd containing program for troubleshoting and maintenance.

That kind of stuff is on this one too, very useful when you find out that you need to repair windows, ut cant remember the admin password. it works on other accounts too.
yeah, i think its a pretty risky disk, but it worth it when you need it.