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Cloning a raid?

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Sinzia

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System Specs
System Name FragBox
Processor Intel Core i7 2600K @ 5.0GHz/1.45 volts
Motherboard Asus P8Z77 WS
Cooling Custom CPU loop
Memory Kingston 12GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s) Galaxy GTX 680/Zotac GTX 680 in SLi/EVGA GTX 650Ti
Storage 2 Vertex 3 120's, raid 0, 2 Seagate Momentus XT 500GB's in raid 0, 1 Hitatchi 2TB for backup
Display(s) 3 Acer S232HLX2 in nvidia surround
Case Corsair C70 White
Audio Device(s) Onboard
Power Supply Corsair AX1200
Software Win 7 x64 Pro
I'm looking for a little help here folks, I have an Asus P8P67 Deluxe with a 3 drive raid 0 with 698Gb capacity. I've noticed some clicking sounds on one of the drives, so I went to micrcenter and got 2 500 Gb drives, set those in a raid 0 as well, for just under 1Tb of capacity. (they're also 2.5inch 7200 rpm drives, so they take up a lot less space as well!)

My install of windows 7 is relatively fresh, about 4 months old so I'd rather not reinstall, but rather clone one raid to the other.

I've tried clonezilla, but it seems the intel ICH10R is not supported, so it doesnt see the drives as two raids, but as the 5 seperate hard drives.

I've backed up all the data to an external 2 TB drive using the built in windows 7 backup, but when I go to restore the backup, it claims there's no available drives to restore to, despite having both raids listed on the selection window.

Any advice on what to use to just clone the raid? Thanks!
 
I have no experience backing up raid arrays, but i've heard acronis is a good piece of software, if that doesn;t work nothing will.
 
depends on the raid setup. if its performance mode raid, then you should be able to clone to a single drive (so long as its the size of the 2 combined drives or more) or clone to another raid 0 config of the same or greater total size.

Acronis would be best for this, I've used it several times (but not on a raid config)

have the new drives been formatted yet?
 
Acronis True Image can do it, with me using WD drives you get to use it for free. And never had a issue cloning a OS raided or not with it.

If you have a WD hard drive hanging around that will enable you to use the free WD version but only tested this by cloning a none WD raid to a WD raid\none raid setup.

Don't Samsung offer the same or some thing like it ?.

Here's link to WD's version
http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en
 
Acronis worked perfectly using the clone option built in!
Thanks for the help, everyone.
 
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