The Windows 7 RAID 0 Cloning Experiment

[@broinghius2138]

"I would piss tremendously. Shit." -Ian Anderson, 2016

[@s8wc3]

Intel Weed i420 420X @ 4.20 ghz

[@LightyNourT]

YES! ANOTHER VIDEO! >Runs like a crazy because of how happy I am when a video of Druaga1 is uploaded

[@pnksounds]

indeeeeed

[@TaggertKlauder]

yessss

[@Geoxor]

drauga1 is easily my favorite youtuber xd

[@Linas81]

thats me XD also he's my fav youtuber 4 ever

[@B1akTang1dH4rt]

+ItsKingasGaming I just stay up all night refreshing my KZbin every few seconds 😆

[@safetydoge]

u was watching memes then "OH SHIT A NEW DRUAGA1 VID SHIT"

[@safetydoge]

I was lol

[@pnksounds]

indeed

[@pnksounds]

mee too

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

this is better than memes "i dont want to just name it volume" "lets name it 'weed'."

[@itmkoeln]

FYI: S-ATA is (contrary to IDE/PATA) a point to point connection (so it is 1.5 Gbit/s, 3.0 Gbit/s or 6 Gbit/s connection per device).

[@josephc2801]

Welcome to druaga1, where every episode technology seems to implode on itself

[@cleanycloth]

+Druaga1, you scrolled right past how to use the volume thing (15:54, for a few frames you'll see it). It says: Swipe your finger on the volume sensor strip to change the volume. To increase volume, move from the - towards the +. To decrease volume, move from the + towards the -. Tips: You can start swiping at any point on the strip. The duration of the swipe determines the amount of the change. A the end of this swipe, if you keep your finger on the strip, the volume control continues to change in the same direction. Tapping on the strop does not change the volume.

[@WedgeStratos]

Disk Image files can be VERY strange. It's actually pretty consistent for a file to claim its file use is maxed out, because it can't identify "free space" in an image. An image is just a file, all the "free space" is consistent of hexadecimal information that tells the original software what it needs to know... So, while you have 217GB used of 288, the hexadecimal data remains to declare what fills the free space... In this case, if you were to have been successful, the hex data would have wiped the RAID clean by telling it to fill the excess with null data.

[@pedrovieira8602]

I have no idea what is the idea behind this channel but it's really fun seeing you doing these "sorta kinda useless but usefull"™ stuff. Specially because you are not a super expert and I can relate A LOT when stuff doesn't go as planed and you have almost no idea what to do (but fight as well as you can to do it)

[@nicnl255]

Macrium Reflect (free) is able to copy a whole disk to another one even if they have mismatching size. I did this when I switched from a 1TB hard drive to a SSD. (Of course I had to delete some files on the 1TB drive so the used space was less than the whole space of the target SSD)

[@deadkefir]

Duuude, u are the best! each time a new video comes out i am always happy, cuz u know howto be funny man!

[@macyler]

The way I go about this usually is the following: Resize the source partitions to fit onto the target disk using GParted (Hiren's - Parted Magic), make sure all partitions are clustered together to the left (Don't leave GBs of space between OS an recovery, move recovery to sit beside OS again after shrinking OS) Then, I like using Macrium Reflect to clone the now-fitting disk. I've found that it can deal with cloning to a smaller disk as long as the combined size of partitions is smaller than the target, and as long as there isn't unallocated space in between them (It would try to keep the same amount of space).

[@miniwa1698]

still waiting on that gentoo on p4 video

[@user-di1de7zm2b]

I don't think Gentoo has a PPC port

[@miniwa1698]

+longlines Pentium 4 not powerpc!

[@miniwa1698]

Also it does have a ppc version.

[@user-di1de7zm2b]

Oh, it does? I didn't know about that. Also sorry for e interpreting p4 as G4.

[@miniwa1698]

+longlines C:

[@anomn_feck3387]

because of you I gained the courage of using 2 different brands between 4 drives that were all the same gigs, schterned...

[@MaliciousAlfa]

Your thumbnail looks like that hdd is getting grounded

[@FrezzyYT]

Yes it does

[@FrezzyYT]

- if you think about it, Freddy and Frezzy sound similar. Fun fact my old name was ImFreddyFazbear

[@MaliciousAlfa]

@@FrezzyYT my irl name is Freddy But it is similar yes

[@RodrigoTano1]

34:43 WTF? LMAO How is that even possible? Apple 1 - Microsoft 0

[@vicr123]

13:15 "...part of the P-series..." Siri picks up "Hey Siri" and activates. Good job Apple. :|

[@vicr123]

Seppä ...to you. I use it every day. :)

[@vicr123]

FurTheLoveOfFurries But I use "Hey Siri..." Oh well, only happened once. Shouldn't happen again :)

[@vicr123]

FurTheLoveOfFurries I use it when I'm on the other side of the room. Otherwise I hold down the button. :)

[@vicr123]

***** FurTheLoveOfFurries I think we all need to calm down. :)

[@Lethaltail]

m8

[@Equimoria]

Somewhere around 16:00 You mention the PDF skipping the capacitive volume. You didn't read closely enough. ;) (To increase volume, slide your finger from the minus to the plus. Do the opposite to decrease volume.)

[@mrahc3684]

congrats on 50k! Love your videos dude.

[@actualhyena]

Fun fact: If you hit 1 on your keyboard while this video is playing, it'll take you to 4:20.

[@hikkamorii]

I became more happy after ur videos, because I actually realize, that I'm not only one who fuck up's everything, and eventually gave up at the end because failed...

[@MagnusTV1990]

Why it shows the whole space is used? Because the program is creating an image of the WHOLE disk, and that includes whatever space is unused. So when you restore the image, it restores it fully to it's previous state. Aside from that, there might be used data in sectors that are off the disk space in your destination disk since it's smaller, which would lead to data corruption. And that's why it makes an image of the whole disk. If you only want to copy the data (no partitions / MBR), you might have better luck manually copying it instead of using disk images.

[@SuperBlackReality]

1) shrink the partition on the drive you want to copy 2) Strip size it's not smallest file size! explaining the simplest: when you set it to 64 KB, only files bigger than 64 KB will get speed improvement, smaller files will be stored only on one drive so read speed for them will be read speed of that drive

[@TabularElf]

Every time Druga1 uploads a new video: *Rushes straight to KZbin spamming the mouse to watch the video.*

[@LOZfaan]

I oddly love your videos. theyre like the old aesthetic of KZbin lol

[@TechyMedia2023]

2:01 it's weird how both the drives are 111.7 GB but the raid is 223.5. it should be 223.4.

[@margeobur315]

Ahh Windows, we may complain about you, mock you, and even curse you for existing, but if there's two things that make you great it's your familiarity and your non-discriminating compatibility.

[@Snowwie88]

If at 4,5 minutes Druaga1 says "This is gonna be easy" and there is still 40 minutes of video left, you know something will go wrong. Every reason to just sit and relax.. ;-)

[@sugna82plays61]

YESSSSS. GOOD JOB DRUAGA LOVE YOUR VIDS SOOOO MUCH. *runs into door while trying to get to computer*

[@josephmmuller]

The RAID strip(e) size only effects how the data is spread between the disks - only really matters with mechanical drives if you're trying to optimize for random-access vs big raw files. The whole minimum file size thing is determined by the block size for whatever filesystem you're using - NTFS, FAT32, etc..

[@SuperTechWizKid]

Password is weed. Of course.

[@B1akTang1dH4rt]

Wouldn't be surprised if that is he's KZbin password

[@jaspersmit2801]

But what its his mail [e-mail] ?

[@Snowwie88]

At ~13:50 you ignore the Chipset Drivers. But you should always install the chipset drivers. Also, you could easily look up your motherboard specification and find out if both ssd's were working on sata-2 or sata-3.

[@Hogdriva]

do a windows NT 4.0 video

[@jonnybricks9391]

I started watching you when you had about 30,000 and now you have about 52,000 subscribers. Wow big growth

[@JohnWillikers]

So i don't know much about strip sizes but from the last video i read the links and basically thats saying thats the smallest files size. Now it doesn't mean it cant store anything smaller, but for example if you tried to save a 2KB file it would take 128KB cause that is what you saved the strip size as. It would still show as 2KB on the os and move fast, but 126KB would be disregarded from the computer. That's why if an OS or anything is going on there you should make it small cause it should save a few gigs in the long run with files below the Strip Size.

[@JohnWillikers]

I shouldve waited before replying this lol. 31:45 made me feel stupid

[@JohnWillikers]

+Hggd Ghjk I can't it goes against my no deleting comments rule :P

[@misaalanshori]

Today on the news: the police caught Druaga1 for installing windows 7 on a piece of weed

[@sergeantc5396]

Dang man, jut a while back I was wondering when you'd hit 40,000 subs, and now you've hit 50,000 subs. You're gonna be at 100,000+ subscribers in no time.

[@kubapolish]

30:42 "*Free" Correction of correction of correction? (͡ ͡ ° ͜ つ ͡͡ °)

[@gustav4572]

can't believe that you made vids 10 years ago keep it up :D

[@banashrack7781]

Congrats on 50k!!

[@theacematt2]

16:37 -- consider Google Drive / Dropbox / something similar?

[@henryjohnson1071]

34:28 LEGO Island's Elevator tune - shortened

[@hammersamatom8055]

Does Druaga not know about the built-in Windows 7 Backup and Restore function in the control panel? It actually makes an image of only the space that you've used, and a recovery CD would have to be made... but it'd still probably be better then Acronis.

[@TheTooBig]

Wow, in 48 hours you have gained more than 2k subscribers... thats a good pace.

[@carlosrxD]

thanks for being an inspiration bro. love your vids.

[@krass76]

HDD LLF: gets rid of everything on a drive (even the stuff Windows can't, but not Raid-definitions I believe). but you only need to quick-format, no real need to buy. It's so hardcore that afterwards you need to bring the drive back to life from within the Windows volume manager because it won't even show up as an unformated drive in explorer directly after using the tool. Very useful to give drives a "new start", especially after screwing around with OS X / linux.

[@Retehi]

Today was a good day. Druaga uploaded.

[@Lethaltail]

The volume strip instructions were in the manual. You scrolled right past them. It acts kind of like a camcorder zoom. If you swipe to the left or right and then keep your finger on the strip, the volume will keep going in that direction.

[@arawndavies8525]

You know the operating system wars are strong when the bootloaders survive even after a NTFS reformat and a RAID creation 34:40

[@P2000Camaro]

9:00 "There's a login??" Well yeah.. When you started putting a password in at setup, I was like "WHy the fuck are you making a password??? Now it's gonna slow the startup process down because you have to log in!!!"

[@محمدالحربي-ر9ط]

its REQUIRED

[@P2000Camaro]

No. No it's not. It's (Recommended) Even says so. I've installed Windows 7 about 6.2 billion times. Never once have I put a password on it. Including the computer I am on at this very moment.

[@محمدالحربي-ر9ط]

+P2000Camaro oops I thought the hint was the password :\

[@chrisfratz]

+P2000Camaro the next button is grayed out in the install

[@P2000Camaro]

Once again, no it's not. It's only grayed out when he types the first letter in the password box, because then it's waiting for you to fill the rest out. Pause it at 6:23. I own a computer repair business, I know what the hell I"m talking about.

[@samuelxander]

50,000 subs? Man you deserve like a million

[@lucasn0tch]

HP deletes their products' drivers after 10 years, which makes it really frustrating

[@TheDeeplyCynical]

4:34 - Great rendition of the Short Circuit 2 intro credits

[@KoreanAsian]

Hey Ian, on your touch volume control, you swipe your finger left and right to change the volume. (Saw it in the PDF you showed us in the video) Also, if you download Nvidia Geforce Experience, it finds and downloads the graphics driver automatically

[@meatpietaster7768]

the stripe size is to do with the largest single file that can be written in one write cycle. for example, with a stripe size of 16kb, if a file is over 16kb it will write to stripes on both drives. so having a smaller stripe size is handy if you are dealing with small files(for access and writing). If the file you are dealing with is under 16kb, it will write to one stripe only and be very quick. if the file is massive, it will only read 16kb of the file per access cycle(therefore making the array work harder). So as a rule, the bigger the files being dealt with then the bigger the stripe should be. but that brings down access time when then reading smaller files. so for an OS, 32 or 64kb is my recommendation. not very technical i know, but neither am i.

[@bluexephos2255]

YEAH!! Back at it with another video!! YEEEAAAHHH!!!

[@notme-mx9ye]

u are the most crazy man in youtube I ve ever seen!!! Go on!

[@Kkorner345]

Congrats on 50k subs! :)

[@Tomcat12789]

I think Gateway's site sucks because of Acer who owns them now, Acer's site has the same layout.

[@leberkassemmel]

Couldn't you use Linux with dd to copy the drive?

[@StephenFasciani]

Linux isn't his strong point.

[@saki453]

+TheKZbinTechGeek not even the makers of Linux know how to use linux

[@MajoroTom]

+win doge That's not how operating systems work!

[@saki453]

+Fives Numeros explain?

[@leberkassemmel]

TheKZbinTechGeek That's probably it.

[@Imnotimportant555]

i use easeus todo backup for my stuff like backing up and restoring images. acronis is just not what it should be.

[@Imnotimportant555]

have you tried redo restore? its a linux type backup and restore os but it works. im not sure if it has anything like compression but im about to use it to backup one of my computers but i will let you know if it does.

[@Imnotimportant555]

i have used it before and it is simple and works very well. also it is open source but it might be dead cause the website says copyright 2013 and the last download was in 2012 but it still works so yea. idk if it is still getting worked on?

[@Imnotimportant555]

on sourceforge their are still things going on in the discuessions for it so i dont think it is dead. but it is so simple it just works and that might be why it has not been updated in a few years. i guess

[@Imnotimportant555]

well lets see if he uses it in his next vid on this if he even does another vid on this. Think he is going to?

[@MattExzy]

4:41 - humming the Short Circuit 2 music.. Druaga in my brains yet again.

[@jdkap201]

How about (since you've got disk images of the W7 original disk) shrinking the actual original disk? After that, you could copy it easily. Another disk utilities you could use is 'EaseUS partition master' (which has the option to create a live CD). I prefer using 'dd' or 'cat' since I do often work with Debian Linux.

[@Cataclysmal]

My MacBook Pro 2011 with one SATA III SSD can boot El Capitan in about 11 seconds. I want to put dual raid SSDs in it yet but I don't know if I want to replace the DVD drive.

[@Imnotimportant555]

try putting the windows 7 install on a flash drive and see how has it goes. it will fly on installing windows on almost any system.

[@Niko-gr3yo]

but the real question is: if you have 2x1TB HDD and 1x2TB HDD, can you put the two 1TB harddrives in raid0 so you have 2 TB and the put them in raid0 with the 2TB HDD? So 4TB Raid0 with 3 drives?

[@aly369]

Could you not resize the original partition with easus partition manager to a size that would fit then use the same software to transfer the files over? Done that many times.

[@holycow131415]

I think it was using the whole disk because of the recovery partition may be on the end of the disk?

[@TheJason13]

was that the song from Short Circuit you were bopping along to?

[@BMWM3GTRMW2005]

where can i buy this laptop

[@ourplesoop]

Broooo you can't put an image from a larger drive onto a smaller drive. Doesn't matter how much free space there is, the destination has to be equal or greater than the size of the original. It's because when you image the drive it copies the structure bit for bit, including free space, and it needs to stay intact in order to actually work on the new drive. Now some people have already said this but you can resize the original partition to say 200GB, so that it plus the MBR partition is less than 223GB, then in Acronis don't do a drive image but rather a partition image, selecting each partition individually.

[@theburlapchap3644]

Hey druaga I want to install install a ssd in Windows 7 How long do you think will Microsoft/developers support Windows 7 Because my computer is only a few years old and still doesn't have windows 10 drivers

[@AiOinc1]

11 hours ago I was watching an episode of Computer Chronicles but now I gotta watch this

[@moth.monster]

Akkbuku uses RAID 0 for his main laptop? I think your friend is insane.

[@iGuy7777]

What happend at 7:05?

[@hoseinqadam]

I had gotten an issue where when I divided my hard disk into two partitions for dual boot goodness, I gave the second partition too much space; after a day when I went to shrink the second partition and put back some space to the first partition, it won't let me. I think it is because I am using an HDD and once there is a partition separating two other they cannot be joined together. Why I am saying this is because I think the reason why the disk was backed up as a full 288GB was because the space (the sectors) between the first partition and the hidden partition (the 10GB recovery) had to be compensated for during the actual backup procedure so that the system knows where the second partition (10GB recovery partition) was located. *this is just my take on the situation, I might be wrong*

[@hoseinqadam]

Oh, if you have not messed with the original 320GB HDD you could try booting it back up (the 320GB HDD) and partition out the free space (make a partition out of all the available space on the HDD). Then when you do a back up and looking to restore, only restore by the partitions themselves and restore the 217GB (which would most likely be the remainder of partitioning out the free space) and the 10GB recovery partition. Hope to see this in your next video. and I really hope you reed these comments of mine :)

[@KittenoftheBroccoli]

I like to have these on in the background while I'm troubleshooting my phone.

[@jonmahashintina]

Looks like it's doing a 1:1 clone? Probably why it took so long. Would Clonezilla help? It's not as pretty but it has the options you're after.

[@Techdisk42]

Er... So what was the original point of installing Windows 7 and the graphics drivers? Recovering from the other drive would just overwrite it all with Vista, because recovering from the entire image of a Vista drive would give you, well, Vista, and it would wipe away anything you installed before that point. If you wanted to get the files from the other install, you'll need to straight up plug the drive in and copy the files over, or use some other restore utility. I'd recommend a Linux live disc to do this (the file copying), to avoid Windows permissions shenanigans.

[@somewhitekidtv1002]

HEY DRUAGA! Is it ok if I use some of your music in a video Im making? I'll give you credit in the description and a link to your BandCamp and KZbin channel

[@ryan-zp4fe]

You made me want to re watch short cuircuit with that humming lol

[@johnkeates9434]

Intel Matrix Storage RAID thingy doesn't do anything. It's known as FakeRAID as it doesn't use hardware acceleration or anything like a real hardware RAID. The main reason for it to exist is to allow Windows to boot off of SoftRAID. Unlike Mac OS X and GNU/Linux to name two options, Windows cannot boot off of it's own software RAID. So to boot, you need to have a 'fake' disk presented by the BIOS or HBA (in this case, the chipset's RAID ROM addon) so Windows thinks it's just booting off of a disk. There is no practical difference between motherboard-based fake RAID and 'normal' software RAID other than the BIOS seeing the Logical Volume (the RAID drive) instead of two drives, other than the windows boot support.

[@Kenlauderdale123]

Can an expert explain why did the mac os x survived after being formatted during the windows 7 installation?

[@SlasherScott1945]

What did you use to connect your old HDD to the laptop for cloning?

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

39:35 Hovers mouse all over the format link but doesn't click, all you did was create a pending partition table, you didn't format anything

[@kidsalex13]

i have windows 15, sata 3, 250 gb ssd, boot time 10 seconds or less, i want to get a sata 3 raid 0 ssd for windows only and try that (timed from pressing the powerbutton to desktop)

[@kidsalex13]

i meant windows 10, 15 second boot :P

[@Dantastic]

When the pimp's in the C drive, drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot.

[@drwarner]

If you'd used the automatic mode in clone mode in Acronis, that would've resized everything for you. That PQService partition is the original Gateway factory image - I wouldn't bother with that then it would've fit.

[@beck3k]

Back with windows 7, the dots could not even finish on the boot screen on my ssd.

[@GizmoTheGreen]

after cleaning files off of your 320gb HDD, defragment it and shrink the partition using something like partedlive linux cd. then you should be able to clone it over (possibly straight from the same live cd with gparted).

[@HuntersMoon78]

I had to put Windows 7 Pro on my workstation because only the pro versions can recognise more than 4 cpu's

[@Minimelkav]

I would recommend HDClone, we use HD Clone 5 at my workplace to deploy images to SSD's the home version of HDClone 6 is super simple and does support cloning top smaller destinations.

[@MortalisPT]

>Loves installing SSDs in everything >Still uses CDs or DVDs to install OS's

[@TheRetroMess]

Why not just skip using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and just use Disk Utility's own RAID? If OS X can do it without having a hardware RAID solution. Or is software RAID worse?

[@sylvoen]

14:35 "file size: 0B" alright

[@ZachKyew]

I installed one of those driverless versions of Windows 7 Home Premium. It didn't have Internet Explorer on it. I had to download Firefox and the wireless LAN drivers from another computer to get it to work.

[@gabemiller9817]

still waiting on that iPod video

[@uuu12343]

Omg can I have the PDF of that guide on how to take things apart?

[@meowskullsgaming]

97th fuck yeah. I can't believe i just checked ~6 minutes ago your channel and there was nothing new. So i decided to see the newest video from Explainig Computers and guess what? The suggestion of the next video was this one. Holy shit, thanks Obama.

[@creditdportg8191]

Are you Going to make a gaming chanle i really liked it when you played doom XD