On Tue, 10 May 2016 10:11:36 +0100 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2016 09:41:01 +0100 Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
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I think the key there is 'blow them away'. As you will see from my reply to Steve, I'm pretty much convinced that I don't need the existing RAID on there so it will go.
I'll report back to let you know how it all went.
I finally managed to get into the BIOS.
I removed the RAID and rebooted. Windows didn't complain at all but using the inbuilt disc management stuff I could see that the second disc was not available with the message 'The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is online'.
Fair enough and understandable. This machine was powered off at the time so using my wife's windows laptop and a USB adapter, I renamed the second drive.
So, on to swapping out the 120GB for the 512GB (not 512MB as I said in earlier reply!) SSD. Using this machine, I did a dd of the MBR, the 100MB Recovery partition and the 111GB main partition. I then tried writing those to the bigger disc. The MBR and the Recovery partitions wrote without a problem but the 111GB partition got to 23GB and sat there.
Trawling through the various DVDs I have here, I found a live version of Mageia 5 so once I'd bunged that in to the new i7 machine, I could then duplicate the 111GB partition to the new SSD. I removed the 120GB once that was done and after hooking up all the drives, I fired up Windows. Hmm. Once of the (ex-RAID) discs still isn't seen by Windows due to the same problem shown above. I assume I need to change the UUID of that drive (mentioned by Steve in his reply) but I thought that only happened after a format and although it *should* have the same stuff on it that the other disc has, I don't want to wipe it at this stage.
Ah well, onwards and upwards. I did earlier consider moving the 1TB linux disc from this machine but as I could easily end up with two non-working machines, I think rather safe than sorry and install everything from scratch on the new machine and then move stuff over as-and-when).
<sigh> Why is that when you want to register the new SSD on the Sandisk site, it asks for a serial number which is on the underside of the disc which is now securely bolted in and with the covers on the machine? :-(