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I am trying to clone a hard drive that is in RAID-1 and be able to boot that targeted hard drive. I am using Win 7 and the hard drives are identical. Acronis solution would not boot. An image copy through the Windows program also would not boot.

Are there any ideas out there?

Kneed2No
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  • You will have to find a program, that supports clonning a RAID array, there isn't one built into Windows 7. There appears to be [several](https://www.bing.com/search?q=clone+raid+array+windows&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN) that can do the job though. – Ramhound Aug 23 '16 at 20:42
  • possible duplicate [here](http://superuser.com/questions/396642/how-do-i-clone-a-raid-0-array-to-a-single-disk). You don't need reply to this comment If you disagree with my opionion that this question is a possible duplicate of an existing question. – Ramhound Aug 23 '16 at 20:45
  • Which RAID-1? I mean, is it HW RAID, "fake" RAID (BIOS/driver SW), a RAID made through Windows LDM? – Nikita Kipriyanov Nov 06 '21 at 18:29

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Don't do it from within windows - RAID1 is just a mirror, so fire up a linux VM and use it to clone one of the RAID1 drives (if the drives are identical, this shouldn't be a big problem).

Guidance on cloning via linux here: http://lifehacker.com/5891933/the-best-disk-cloning-app-for-linux

Andy
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