Upgrading RAID Hardrive

[Chris_150]

Hi, I am looking to upgrade a RAID hardrive in an Alienware M17x laptop. I would like to be able to go from 500GB to either a 1TB or 2TB setup.

Here are my specs from [System Information] -> [Components] -> [Storage] -> [Disks] :

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model M17X_RAID0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 596.18 GB (640,140,641,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 77,826
Total Sectors 1,250,274,690
Total Tracks 19,845,630
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 39.19 MB (41,094,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 8.73 GB (9,378,463,744 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 41,943,040 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 587.40 GB (630,718,464,000 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 9,420,406,784 bytes

Please let me know if any other information is needed. Any help is appreciated.

 

[drtweak]

You can. You would need to use a program like Macrium Reflect to make a image of your OS as it is now to another hard drive. Then remove the drives, toss in your new drives, and then make the RAID. Then use the Bootable Media you need to make when you first run macrium Reflect and connect the drive that the image is store to and restore it. You will have to then extend the last partition to get the rest of the disk space after you boot into windows.