- Jul 7, 2015
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Hi all.
[Sorry; I have done a bit of searching, but it seems to be a waste of time.]
The machine in question is not booted at the moment, as one of the HDDs is clicking [I am assuming it is that]… so I am going from memory here.
I have a Gigabyte Z68XP running Windows 7. I have (from memory) 4 or 5 HDDs in motherboard RAID-5. There are two volumes on that RAID-5… er, drive. (I think there is another HDD as well, but that should be irrelevant.)
The issue is that I *boot* from a RAID-5 volume. [That took a bit of work — nothing more difficult than a bit of searching and a bit of tweaking… although conversely it probably seemed much worse at the time.]
One of my drives is clicking [I am assuming it is a drive]. The drives are easily over 6 years old, I believe. (I have bought a new drive, for to copy the RAID-5 array onto — a 4TB WD, offhand — but I have not gotten around to doing the copy — primarily because I have not managed to find out how. [Hence my question here.])
Just to reiterate — (apart from it being motherboard RAID-5) the issue here is that the volume is bootable — I want a single-drive volume that is *bootable*, as the outcome.
( BTW. I can not remember whether it is my Z68XP or my Z170X-UD5 [*not* TH]… but one of my (Gigabyte) machines could not set up Windows 7, for some reason to do with USB, from memory — it [USB] was new then. …Without some tweak from Gigabyte… which I found out existed *after* I spend literally hours rebooting multiple times, finding and adding drivers from subdirectories on the CD. Hopefully that is irrelevant, but I thought I should mention it. )
Thank you in advance
sarscarix041
p.s. I accept that I may have to buy some utility that I will use only this once, for this.
p.p..s. Incidentally, I asked Tom’s Hardware’s new AI ChatBot “HammerBot” about this — as follows – “How do I back up a bootable motherboard RAID-5 array?” — and it said to use Acronis True Image… which I happen to have. I am wondering if anyone knows if that is misguided or not, please? (I think I might have thought of that already myself — as in, it would not work.)
[Sorry; I have done a bit of searching, but it seems to be a waste of time.]
The machine in question is not booted at the moment, as one of the HDDs is clicking [I am assuming it is that]… so I am going from memory here.
I have a Gigabyte Z68XP running Windows 7. I have (from memory) 4 or 5 HDDs in motherboard RAID-5. There are two volumes on that RAID-5… er, drive. (I think there is another HDD as well, but that should be irrelevant.)
The issue is that I *boot* from a RAID-5 volume. [That took a bit of work — nothing more difficult than a bit of searching and a bit of tweaking… although conversely it probably seemed much worse at the time.]
One of my drives is clicking [I am assuming it is a drive]. The drives are easily over 6 years old, I believe. (I have bought a new drive, for to copy the RAID-5 array onto — a 4TB WD, offhand — but I have not gotten around to doing the copy — primarily because I have not managed to find out how. [Hence my question here.])
Just to reiterate — (apart from it being motherboard RAID-5) the issue here is that the volume is bootable — I want a single-drive volume that is *bootable*, as the outcome.
( BTW. I can not remember whether it is my Z68XP or my Z170X-UD5 [*not* TH]… but one of my (Gigabyte) machines could not set up Windows 7, for some reason to do with USB, from memory — it [USB] was new then. …Without some tweak from Gigabyte… which I found out existed *after* I spend literally hours rebooting multiple times, finding and adding drivers from subdirectories on the CD. Hopefully that is irrelevant, but I thought I should mention it. )
Thank you in advance
sarscarix041
p.s. I accept that I may have to buy some utility that I will use only this once, for this.
p.p..s. Incidentally, I asked Tom’s Hardware’s new AI ChatBot “HammerBot” about this — as follows – “How do I back up a bootable motherboard RAID-5 array?” — and it said to use Acronis True Image… which I happen to have. I am wondering if anyone knows if that is misguided or not, please? (I think I might have thought of that already myself — as in, it would not work.)
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