Reinstall the os and software backup extrenal hard drive on newly formatted disks raid o
I have a gateway dx420s there a HDD 160 GB, I want to do is first of all to buy hard drives of 500 GB to 3 two who will enter the computer and set up in raid 0 stripping data that the computer supports raid 0 or raid 1. first of all I want to save my intire system on an external hard drive. install the two new drives, their formatting, and then configure the raid in the bios. then reinstall the system from the external backup hard drive. My question is - is it possible in this way? It would save a lot of time from having to reinstall the OS and all software.
Hi DALE_F,
If you perform a complete PC backup image, you should be able to reinstall this image from backup to the new hard drive.
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