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I have 2. Except how do I clone the os back to the raid setup without installing an os?

see i was right, now this is how you do it

make a bootable usb of ubuntu

 

set up your raid, and make sure you have copied your original os to something outside of your computer (external hdd)

 

put bootable usb and external drive with old os on computer before boot

 

boot into your ubuntu usb drive

 

start gparted in ubuntu

 

find your disk and your raid, assuming your raid is a software raid

 

and then copy each partition from your external device to your raid

 

if your raid is a hardware raid (means you have a raid card in one of your pci-express lanes) then you will have a very hard time doing what you want and would be better suited to just reinstall for all the trouble this would be.

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Is there a way to clone my existing clone of my os to my raid setup without installing windows and cloning it again?

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The best bet would be reinstalling. Can I ask why you dont want to?

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because i don't want to reinstall all my programs and customize every single one of them and set the locations of my folders.

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because i don't want to reinstall all my programs and customize every single one of them and set the locations of my folders.

Put your OS on an external disk then create the raid on your machine, then you need to use a tool of some kind to copy the information over. Bootable linux perhaps?

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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Put your OS on an external disk then create the raid on your machine, then you need to use a tool of some kind to copy the information over. Bootable linux perhaps?

I don't suppose you have a preference or guide to doing this?

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Partition Wizard, is Free

Inbuilt Clone/Copy Buttons and Info Guide makes it easy

 

I had to do it recently and I Cloned Current OS HDD to another 'not to be in the raid' drive <- in case of using my current OS drive in the raid

After cloned,.. rebooted,..Created Raid, booted back in on clone,....Partition Wizard again,...copied back to the set up raid and then rebooted,..set bios to boot off the raid.

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Partition Wizard, is Free

Inbuilt Clone/Copy Buttons and Info Guide makes it easy

 

I had to do it recently and I Cloned Current OS HDD to another 'not to be in the raid' drive <- in case of using my current OS drive in the raid

After cloned,.. rebooted,..Created Raid, booted back in on clone,....Partition Wizard again,...copied back to the set up raid and then rebooted,..set bios to boot off the raid.

This is assuming he has an extra hdd though, we don't know that he does

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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I have 2. Except how do I clone the os back to the raid setup without installing an os?

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This is assuming he has an extra hdd though, we don't know that he does

I have 2. Except how do I clone the os back to the raid setup without installing an os?

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I have 2. Except how do I clone the os back to the raid setup without installing an os?

I use AOMEI Backupper's Clone function to clone OS drives.

I recently did this:

  1. Clone OS from 120GB SSD to 1TB HDD
  2. Make Quad-SSD RAID 0.
  3. Clone OS from 1TB HDD to 480GB SSD RAID 0.

It worked just fine with AOMEI.

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I have 2. Except how do I clone the os back to the raid setup without installing an os?

see i was right, now this is how you do it

make a bootable usb of ubuntu

 

set up your raid, and make sure you have copied your original os to something outside of your computer (external hdd)

 

put bootable usb and external drive with old os on computer before boot

 

boot into your ubuntu usb drive

 

start gparted in ubuntu

 

find your disk and your raid, assuming your raid is a software raid

 

and then copy each partition from your external device to your raid

 

if your raid is a hardware raid (means you have a raid card in one of your pci-express lanes) then you will have a very hard time doing what you want and would be better suited to just reinstall for all the trouble this would be.

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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Or if you have extra drives then just clone your os to an extra hdd then make your raid  boot back into windows, then clone your extra hdd back to your raid this is much easier btw

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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Did you boot from the HDD to clone to the raid configuration?

Yes. AOMEI can clone a running OS disk. It's a program you install to Windows. Not something you boot to. 

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I have 2. Except how do I clone the os back to the raid setup without installing an os?

Right now, you would add one of those drives to the PC (Thats bigger in Size than your Main drive you wanna clone)

Clone OS to that Drive.

Remove original source OS drive, this is a backup if things go wrong.

 

Turn off PC, add drives for Raid.

Set the NEW cloned drive you made from windows in the bios to be the bootable drive.

Set up Raid (Refer to Your Mobo Manual)

Booot into windows on the clone. Use Partition Wizard Free to clone OS drive to newly created Raid volume.

Reboot.

Set Bios to Boot off Raid volume, and when in windows, format the clone.

 

Or you could just create the raid first, and clone current drive to it, then set bios boot to raid after its all done and format the old one too.

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Nevermind. Tried Gparted. Ended up doing a clean install anyway.

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