How to Clone Striped Volume to Basic Disk Space without Losing Data?

How to clone striped volume to basic disk space? The AOMEI Partition Assistant software is what you need; it allows you to clone striped volume or other dynamic volumes to basic disk without losing data in Windows 11,10, 8, 7.

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By Emily / Updated on May 12, 2023

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Why clone striped volume to basic disk space?

Striped volume (RAID 0)is one of the dynamic volumes on the dynamic disk. It is created by combining areas of free space on 2 or more disks into one logical volume. So the data will be divided into blocks and spread in a fixed order among all the disks in the volume. This volume can provide improved disk I/O (input/output) performance by distributing I/O requests across disks but do not offer fault tolerance.

Striped Volume

 

In other words, if dynamic disks contain a failed striped volume, all data on it become inaccessible. To avoid that, you may want to clone the dynamic striped volume to basic disk for a backup. Or if the striped volume is running on low disk and there is not any free space on the dynamic disks to extend it, you can clone the striped volume to a larger basic disk space to get more storage space. For either purpose, the most important task is how to finish this special clone process.

Safe way to clone striped volume to basic disk in Windows 10, 8, 7

To clone dynamic volumes, like simple volume, spanned volume, striped volume, mirrored volume and RAID-5 volume to basic disk space, the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is a great choice. It comes with a dynamic disk converter, allowing users to convert dynamic disk to basic one without deleting data and volumes. Besides, it can also convert any dynamic volume to  basic partition; exactly through this method, you can clone dynamic volume to basic disk space. You can download the demo version and have a try.

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1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Click “Convert” in the top toolbar, and choose “Dynamic Disk Converter”.

Dynamic Disk Converter

2. Here, choose the "Method 2' because the program can clone the dynamic volume sector by sector to save the converting and cloning time.

Choose Method

3. Choose the striped volume.

Select Striped Volume

4. Choose the bigger unallocated space to clone as we just mentioned above.

Select Destination

5.Click "Proceed" and the operation will start. The operation will be accomplished after several minutes, it depends on the size of data in striped volume you want to clone.

Proceed

Summary

So, under the help of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can easily clone striped volume to basic disk space without losing data in Windows 10, 8, 7. Apart from cloning feature, the software also comes with many other features: remove/add drive to RAID 5 array, move volume slice, extend, shrink and resize, create, delete dynamic volumes. Moreover, it is also able to help manage basic disk: clone partition/hard drive, transfer OS to SSD, convert MBR and GPT without losing data, etc.

Emily
Emily · Staff Editor
Emily is an English editor of AOMEI Technology; she has a great passion for providing easy solutions for people to tackle with all disk or partition management problems. In addition to writing articles about disk/partition management, she also edits great tutorials on how to back up and restore disk for data security. In her spare time, she loves to learn computer skill to improve herself or stay with her family to enjoy a good day.