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Thanks for accepting my work as an answer.
I'll repost it here, for the sake of future readers,
along with some additional information I found that
may prove useful:
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If your Raid 0 setup is as described here on PC Guide:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/singleLevel0-c.html
...then the files for your XP installation are distributed across
however many drives you are using, and don't reside on a single
drive, so you would need to clone the installation from the Raid
array to another slaved drive, if that's possible.
Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools 11 for DOS and Data
Lifeguard Tools 11 for Windows both have a feature that will let
you clone system from one hard drive to a slaved drive. As long
as Data Lifeguard Tools can recognize the Raid array as a single
drive, you should be able to complete a copy of the installation.
You can download Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools 11 here,
and give it a try:
http://support.wdc.com/
If the program sees the drives in the Raid array as separate
drives, I don't know of any other program that might work.
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Partition Magic can often work wonders with situations like this:
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
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Given that you utilized Windows' Disk Management Console to
set up the Raid array, this page from Microsoft may be helpful:
"How to Delete a Dynamic Volume"
"To delete a dynamic volume:
1. In Disk Management, right-click the dynamic volume that you
want to delete, and then click Delete Volume.
2. Click Yes when you are prompted to delete the volume.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
When you delete a volume, all data on the volume is deleted
in addition to the volume itself.
You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any
volume that contains the active paging (swap) file."
More on the page:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308424&sd=tech
Having deleted the dynamic volume, you should then be
able to see the two drives as separate, and reformat
and repartition them as normal drives. The critical
question is whether the active partition with your
OS on it is then located in a position which will
allow you to boot from it. Presumably it is, if
you've been booting from it all along.
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After you've deleted any dynamic volumes on the disk,
you still need to take one more step, and return it to
the status of a basic disk:
"After you have deleted all the volumes on the dynamic
disk, right-click the dynamic disk that you want to
change to a basic disk, and then click Convert to Basic
Disk."
From the section titled "How to Convert a Dynamic Disk
to a Basic Disk" on this page from Microsoft:
"How To Convert to Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP
Professional"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309044&sd=tech
That last bit should get the disks working in your new
computer.
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Additional information may be found from an exploration of
the links resulting from the Google searches outlined below.
Searches done, via Google:
"convert to Dynamic Disk"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22convert+to+Dynamic+Disk%22
"after * convert to Dynamic Disk"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22after+*+convert+to+Dynamic+Disk%22 |
