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Moving existing Windows 7 Pro 64Bit OS Install to RAID 5
Hi All,
Am pulling my hair out a bit.
I have the following MOBO:
ASUS P7P55D-E EVO
2X80gb Western Digital SATA Drives
2x2TB Samsung Spintpoint SATA Drives
I have already been using the machine with another 80Gb Western Digital SATA Drive with Windows 7 Pro 64Bit installed and now want to convert to RAID 5 for redunancy in case of Drive failure (We all say we will back up but we are all lazy when it comes to it LOL).
I have taken out the original OS drive and plugged it into the E-SATA connector on the MOBO, gone into the BIOS, turned on RAID for the SATA Ports on the MOBO, and connected the 2 X 80Gb Boot drives. Entered the Hardware RAID Controller POST, and created the RAID 5 Volume from the 2 X 80Gb Discs.
Now boot with Acronis Wester Digital edition.
Clone the Original 80Gb Disc to the new Raid Array.
Shut machine off, remove original OS 80gb Disc from E-SATA port.
Boot machine.
It starts to boot, and gets as far as the Windwos 7 Microsoft 4 Colour logo and then I get an error and then have to boot into Windows 7 from DVD and go through the repair process.
When the Repair has run it reports the following:
The following startup option will be repaired:
Name: Windows Boot Manager
Identifier: {9DEA862C-5CDD-4E70-ACC1-F32B344D4795}
The following startup options will be added:
Name: Windows Recovery Environment (recovered)
Path: Recovery\e52d0bc2-1f15-11df-af10-d764fe3715b8\Winre.wim
Windows Device: Partition=D76190 MB)
A copy of the current boot configuration data will be saved as:C:\Boot\BCD.Backup.0001
However it fails to do the update
How do I get this RAID to boot successfully? I *don't* want to have to re-install the Operating System as that is just too painful a thought
--Roger