Suggestions for cloning drives to RAID array...

**Doctor Feelgood**

I have a free app that did it for my other machine, but it only runs under Win9X... Thought Maxtor's maxBlast 3 would do it for me now...

Any "cheap" solutions to get my two partitions on one stand alone drive onto 2 partitions on my RAID array?

Thanks!

T-shirt · Posted: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:20:11 Post Subject:

While not free, Norton ghost works well.
Haven't used MaxBlast3 (I know MB2 had some problems) but you should be ok as long as you keep the original disk as is for awhile.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:47:48 Post Subject:

Maxblast works great for drives on the standard IDE channels, but it won't touch the RAID array... It sees them as "Dynamic" drives and insists they aren't NTFS or FAT volumes... Confused

Ghost is defnitely good, but I was hoping to hear of a nice free download... Grin

Like the old one I had, "Drive2Drive" worked well... just not on WinXP.

T-shirt · Posted: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:03:10 Post Subject:

google for Drive copy probably can find a trial version somewhere

Dud3! · Posted: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:17:43 Post Subject:

I have an old version of Drive Image, and dad just picked up Drive Copy 2.0 at the flea market.

Both run in DOS, and Drive Copy is a bootable floppy disk. I'd be happy to copy it and e-mail it too you so you can see if it'll work.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:19:14 Post Subject:

I used something called Casper XP - which worked well, but in my thread in the hardware section the Cheeze and others are telling me I have to start fresh to boot from a RAID array... Bang Head

IceNine · Posted: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:50:58 Post Subject:

Yeah, that's necessary. WinXP won't just "notice" a RAID array. At least not in my experience. If anyone has gotten this to work I've yet to see it and if so, I would like to see it!!