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Restoration of Windows 7 RAID 1 (Mirror)
I have two questions based upon the following:
PC 64 bit AMD processor running Windows 7
1 SSD has the Win 7 OS c:
There was initially 1 1 TB HD e: to which the users folder had been moved during setup using sysprep
To this was added a second identical 1 TB HD
I created a "software" RAID 1 mirror of the 1 TB data drive so there are now two dynamic discs containing the data e:
I use both Acronis and Macrium to do separate backups of both the OS and DATA dynamic volumes (I don't trust either of them - just being thorough. I have done restorations with both.
1) I have not yet had an OS failure with the dynamic RAID mirror set. Should the OS fail and I restore it, I am assuming that I will not have a problem once the OS is restored to the same or another SSD in the same PC. Is this a correct assumption?
2) Should there be a catastrophic failure, can one of the data dynamic volumes be read on another PC? Could it be converted to a basic disk to read the data.....or.....would one put it in another PC and create another RAID mirror to retrieve the data?