Cloning single drive (Windows) to a RAID array
Recently I decided to finally add some more disks to my PC and arrange everything using RAID arrays. I looked for instructions over the Internet and only found some bits and pieces here and there. One tutorial that seemed to make sense was to create an image of the system running on the single drive I had and restoring it to the RAID array. First up will be a summary of my efforts trying to figure it out and after that how it's done in a few simple steps. Square one situation: Win10 running on a single 3TB drive Aim: To have Win10 cloned on a 2TB RAID1 array and freshly installed Debian + WinXP on a 3TB RAID1 array. Eventually it turned out that software RAID is the path to take with the latter. First problem to solve was how to clone a 3TB drive on a 2TB drive. The obvious first step was to reduce the size of my partitions using the Windows disk management tool. Then I created the backup image of the system with the built in tools. Next step was supposed to be restoring th