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I
don't have direct experience with your hardware,
but I do have experience with similar situations.
First of all, the specs for your computer don't provide
enough details about your RAID, just "2x500GB".
You mentioned "RAID 0" so I'll infer that your 1TB
is the same.
The first thing to consider is the size of your C: system partition:
it may need to be shrunk before creating any drive images
of that partition: otherwise, the restore task won't find enough
room on your SSD: your RAID 0 is 1TB, but your SSD is much less!
PartitionWizard will do the shinking
for you: www.partitionwizard.com
I would then hook up your SSD to an external USB enclosure.
Then, format that SSD with a primary partition that will
be equal to the size of your C: after shrinking C:.
Format the remainder of the SSD as a dedicated data partition.
Then, as a failsafe measure, do a drive image of your existing C:,
and write that drive image to the data partition on your SSD.
Then, shrink C: to the exact same size as the primary partition
on your SSD -- and I mean EXACTLY THE SAME e.g. 30 GB or 50 GB.
Now, based on my prior experiences with Symantec's GHOST,
you should be able to write another drive image to the
data partition on your SSD, only this time it's an image of
C: AFTER you shrunk it.
Then, you should be able to swap your SSD into your laptop, and
then run the image restore task by reading the second drive image
from the data partition on that SSD and writing it to the new
primary partition on that SSD.
That's how I would do it, if I were in your situation and if I were
using Symantec's GHOST (with which I have many years of
successful experience).
MRFS