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mrivers's avatar
mrivers
Level 3
9 years ago

Restore to RAID 1

I am running SSR 2013 R2 SP6 on a desktop computer under Windows 10 64bit.  The system drive is a SSD that is Bitlocker encrypted.  I would like to move the system drive to a RAID 1 array.  How can I do this with SSR?

Thanks.

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    • mrivers's avatar
      mrivers
      Level 3
      9 years ago

      Thank you for your response.  I had seen that document, but I do not think it will work in my case.

      The SATA controller is presently set to IDE, and would have to be changed to RAID to create the array.  My understanding is that the source drive would no longer be accessible to copy once that is done.  Is that correct?

      I could make an image of the source drive before changing the SATA controller to RAID, and then restore the image to the RAID array.  Would that work?  How would Windows know to use the RAID drivers?

      Thanks.

      • criley's avatar
        criley
        Moderator
        9 years ago

        Yes, you are correct.

        In that case, I think a restore is the only option here. You would need to backup the entire machine, then make the hardware changes, then boot from the recovery disk and run a restore. The 'restore anyware' process should prompt for a new driver (for the RAID) if the driver is not already present inside the backup image.