Cloning a Windows installation (RAID 0) to single SSD (non-RAID) fails

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  1. Posts : 11
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    Cloning a Windows installation (RAID 0) to single SSD (non-RAID) fails


    Hi All,

    I've got a Windows 10 Home install running on a pair of 120GB SSDs running in RAID 0 (striped) - seemed like a good idea at the time.....ho-hum.... :/

    Have now run out of space and want to move to a bigger (single) SSD. I used Macrium Reflect to clone the partitions across to the new single SSD (no problem there), then disconnected the RAID array leaving the new SSD attached.

    The Intel SATA raid thingie now detects on boot that there is no longer a RAID, but Windows won't boot. It takes me straight to the blue "something's not right" page saying that there is some hardware missing...sorry can't remember the error at the moment.

    I cannot get to the recovery mode (pressing F8 - does nothing). How can I tell windows that the RAID has gone and there is now a single boot drive in operation?

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Best wishes,

    Jon
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  2. Posts : 1,099
    Win 10 pro Upgraded from 8.1
       #2

    Boot to your Macrium recovery USB, once MR is open run the boot repair feature that should fix you.
    You did leave your BIOS setting to RAID right.
    Use Macrium Reflect Rescue Media to Fix Windows Boot Issues | Tutorials
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  3. Posts : 913
    CP/M
       #3

    0x7b ...inaccessible boot device
    if so install non-raid driver before cloning
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  4. Posts : 8,057
    windows 10
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    How was raid implementation done using Windows or mother board?
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  6. Posts : 11
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
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    Samuria said:
    How was raid implementation done using Windows or mother board?
    Hi, it was created using motherboard RAID. I pressed ctrl+i to access the utility at boot time and initialised the disks in RAID 0. The motherboard is an MSI Z97 gaming 5.

    I suspect that either there is something screwy about the partitioning that's a hang over from the PC's origins (an HP), or winload.efi is trying to load a RAID driver and expecting to receive something back from the (now) non-existent array?

    Bizarrely I thought that windows might be smart enough to figure out what's happened and just try to boot the available drive.

    The other thing is that the drive letters might have got screwed up. It's definitely not an mbr disk partition, but I know sweet f.a. about uefi, so any pointers would be super helpful.

    Best wishes,

    Jon
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  7. Posts : 11
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
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    Clintlgm said:
    Boot to your Macrium recovery USB, once MR is open run the boot repair feature that should fix you.
    You did leave your BIOS setting to RAID right.
    Use Macrium Reflect Rescue Media to Fix Windows Boot Issues | Tutorials
    I tried doing the "repair windows startup" from the recovery console, and that wouldn't play nice. The bios setting is still set to raid, but I have disconnected the old raid-0 pair of disks, so I guess it shouldn't matter??

    Will the MR boot fixer do a better job than windows recovery?

    Best wishes

    Jon
    Last edited by angrypanda; 13 Jan 2019 at 18:41. Reason: Typo
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  8. Posts : 9,765
    Mac OS Catalina
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    You need to set the motherboard so that it is not RAID, then run Boot Fixer. Windows Recovery will not fix this problem.
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  9. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
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    It could be the disk controller driver in Windows. Typically if you are changing disk controller modes between IDE, AHCI, and RAID, you need to uninstall the old disk controller driver in device manager in Windows first. After the old disk controller driver is uninstalled in Device Manager then shutdown your computer using Shift when you click on the shutdown icon in Windows (to ensure a complete shutdown and not a fast startup type of hibernation shutdown). Then on the next power up, enter BIOS or UEFI and change the controller mode. Then restart and Windows will reinstall the proper disk controller driver.
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  10. Posts : 11
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
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    Hi,

    Not sure if this will help much? This is the picture of the screen I get whenever I reboot.

    Cloning a Windows installation (RAID 0) to single SSD (non-RAID) fails-20190113_211411.jpg

    Any resemblance to The Scream (Edvard Munch) is completely coincidental.

    Best wishes,

    Jon
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