I have an old Dell XPS420 with an Intel RAID controller on the MB. For years I’ve had RAID 1 enabled on a 2x1TB array set up as two volumes: A 300GB volume which has Windows 7 installed on it and the remainder as a “data” volume.
Now I’d like to move the 300GB volume over to a new Crucial MX100 256GB SSD I just installed. I have successfully installed the SSD and imaged the boot volume over to it using Acronis True Image 2014 (which is included with Crucial’s SSD), but now the SSD won’t boot. When the system attempts to boot from it, the whole system hard-restarts all the way back to the BIOS power-up screen. I can still boot from the old volume so I haven’t lost anything yet, but I’m wary of messing with any more settings for fear I'’ll wipe out my existing drives.
I suspect the RAID controller (Intel’s ICH9) and the configuration of the boot volume as a RAID volume is keeping the new standalone SSD from booting correctly, but I’m definitely out of my area here. Can anybody suggest what to try next? I’d rather not reinstall Windows 7 and five years worth of apps/data if I can avoid it.