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I'm posting as I've tried searching and am getting a little desperate. Also because I'm sure when I find an answer, others will be interested.
Firstly, machine specs are as follows:
Main Components
Motherboard: Asus P5K-E-Wifi
CPU: Intel Q6600 Quad Core (2.4MHz)
Ram: 4GB Kingston DDR2 1066
Video: Nvidia 9600GT 512Mb
Sound: Onboard
TV Tuner: Hauppauge HVR-2200
DVD: Pioneer S02BK Blu-Ray
Case: Silverstone CW02B-MX
HDD: 4 x 1Tb Western Digital Sata 2
PSU: Silverstone 750W Heavy Series
Drives are setup as follows:
Sata ports 0,1 & 2 - Raid5
Sata port 3 - normal
As described above I have setup 3 of the 1TB drives in a raid5 and added the 4th drive later. I foolishly partitioned the raid5 and installed Vista x64 onto the raid. From a bit more research and first hand experience of poor performance I've found that this is NOT the thing to do.
My problem is I need to move the Vista partition onto the 4th drive and out of the raid array but have not found anything that can do it. So far I've tried Acronis Disk Director Suite and Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0. I even tried to set the non-raid disc as the main boot disc and install Vista on that, but it wouldn't reboot after the initial install.
Unfortunately I can't just dump the raid and start again as I have about 1.3TB of media to find a home for in the mean time and I really, really, really don't want to loose it.
I'm now going to try out Acronis True Image Home 11.0 to make a backup of the Vista partition and attempt to restore it to the non-raid drive.
Any help/direction/ridicule would be much appreciated.
Current status is that true image seems to have worked and I've successfully restored the C drive image to a new E drive partition. I've set the bios to boot from the non-raid drive and it's up and running, though I can't work out which partition it's actually booted from at the moment. Any ideas?
Definitely still work in progress..
Krypto - will post progress as I go..
Bill - Yup, I sure did. Unfortunately due to the raid setup unplugging the drives isn't an option as I don't want to loose the raid.
Wineds - true image seems to have worked at the moment, though thanks for the info.
Update - after having a quick think, I thought the best way to work out which drive vista was booting from was to create something in "My Documents" and then check the users folder to see which drive it was created on.
Turns out that vista is completely over-riding the bios settings and still booting from the raid drive!
Now I'm completely stumped... Any feedback at this point would be great.
That makes no sense if you have disabled raid in the bios
Suggest you make an image of c: and store it on an external drive, then disconnect all the drives other than the one that you want to restore to and restore to that.
you did change the boot to the new drive it may not be finding boot sector to the other boot partition.
just temporary
unplug raid drives so you have the one left that you have installed vista on and try vista repair
you may need to remove the boot sector from the raid
Used Acronis True Image Home demo (which I'll be purchasing!) to create an image of the main drive, found a spare 1TB drive to move the media to, nuked the raid and started again.
One gem of knowledge that came from all this is that Asus boards remember raid configurations, no matter what you do, ie plug them into different sata ports. Brilliant!
if you have disabled raid in the bios
