Raid-0 in Winxp PRO

[Joshco]

I do not have a raid on my motherboard. So does anyone
know hoy to implement it in Windowxp PRO with out a
raid-0 card. I will be using 2 SATA hard drives.

[David B.]

You need to install a pci sata RAID card in your system, such as one from Promise, no other way to do it.

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"Joshco" > wrote in message ...
> I do not have a raid on my motherboard. So does anyone
> know hoy to implement it in Windowxp PRO with out a
> raid-0 card. I will be using 2 SATA hard drives.

[Durand]

Use disk management for creating software raid 0. Note though, that you cannot
use this on the system drive that windows is located on. Second note, if the mbr
is messed up, you lose all data on every partition and it's not easy to recover
the raid partition(s). If you have two hard drives minimum, both must be the
same size or raid will default to the size of the smallest drive. Example, drive
0 is 20 gb and drive 1 is 10 gb, the most you'll get is 20 gb in RAID0 (size of
the smallest drive plus 1/2 the size of the larger drive). Workaround for
windows nt/2k/xp for software raid, create multiple & identically sized
partitions on both drives and install xp to c: then create your raid on any
partitions after c:(disk0) and d:(disk1). I used to have this setup with NT4 and
was able to restore the raid partitions using a diskette, but I don't remember
the exact steps now as I'm not using raid anymore.

Regards,

Durand

David B. wrote:

> You need to install a pci sata RAID card in your system, such as one from Promise, no other way to do it.
>

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[David B.]

How exactly do you go about this, I can find no info on it.

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"Durand" > wrote in message ...
> Use disk management for creating software raid 0. Note though, that you cannot
> use this on the system drive that windows is located on. Second note, if the mbr
> is messed up, you lose all data on every partition and it's not easy to recover
> the raid partition(s). If you have two hard drives minimum, both must be the
> same size or raid will default to the size of the smallest drive. Example, drive
> 0 is 20 gb and drive 1 is 10 gb, the most you'll get is 20 gb in RAID0 (size of
> the smallest drive plus 1/2 the size of the larger drive). Workaround for
> windows nt/2k/xp for software raid, create multiple & identically sized
> partitions on both drives and install xp to c: then create your raid on any
> partitions after c:(disk0) and d:(disk1). I used to have this setup with NT4 and
> was able to restore the raid partitions using a diskette, but I don't remember
> the exact steps now as I'm not using raid anymore.
>
> Regards,
>
> Durand
>
> David B. wrote:
>
> > You need to install a pci sata RAID card in your system, such as one from Promise, no other way to do it.
> >
>
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> ÿþR
>

[David Candy]

Type striped volumes in help
"David B." > wrote in message =
...
> How exactly do you go about this, I can find no info on it.
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> "Durand" > wrote in message =
...
> > Use disk management for creating software raid 0. Note though, that =
you cannot
> > use this on the system drive that windows is located on. Second =
note, if the mbr
> > is messed up, you lose all data on every partition and it's not easy =
to recover
> > the raid partition(s). If you have two hard drives minimum, both =
must be the
> > same size or raid will default to the size of the smallest drive. =
Example, drive
> > 0 is 20 gb and drive 1 is 10 gb, the most you'll get is 20 gb in =
RAID0 (size of
> > the smallest drive plus 1/2 the size of the larger drive). =
Workaround for
> > windows nt/2k/xp for software raid, create multiple & identically =
sized
> > partitions on both drives and install xp to c: then create your raid =
on any
> > partitions after c:(disk0) and d:(disk1). I used to have this setup =
with NT4 and
> > was able to restore the raid partitions using a diskette, but I =
don't remember
> > the exact steps now as I'm not using raid anymore.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Durand
> >
> > David B. wrote:
> >
> > > You need to install a pci sata RAID card in your system, such as =
one from Promise, no other way to do it.
> > >
> >
> > --=20
> > =FF=FER
> >
>=20
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[Durand]

Thanks for the assist David. :)

David Candy wrote:
> Type striped volumes in help
> "David B." > wrote in message ...
>
>>How exactly do you go about this, I can find no info on it.
>>
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>>"Durand" > wrote in message ...
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>>>Use disk management for creating software raid 0. Note though, that you cannot
>>>use this on the system drive that windows is located on. Second note, if the mbr
>>>is messed up, you lose all data on every partition and it's not easy to recover
>>>the raid partition(s). If you have two hard drives minimum, both must be the
>>>same size or raid will default to the size of the smallest drive. Example, drive
>>>0 is 20 gb and drive 1 is 10 gb, the most you'll get is 20 gb in RAID0 (size of
>>>the smallest drive plus 1/2 the size of the larger drive). Workaround for
>>>windows nt/2k/xp for software raid, create multiple & identically sized
>>>partitions on both drives and install xp to c: then create your raid on any
>>>partitions after c:(disk0) and d:(disk1). I used to have this setup with NT4 and
>>>was able to restore the raid partitions using a diskette, but I don't remember
>>>the exact steps now as I'm not using raid anymore.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Durand
>>>
>>>David B. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>You need to install a pci sata RAID card in your system, such as one from Promise, no other way to do it.
>>>>
>>>
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>>>ÿþR
>>>
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>>
>

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Regards,

Durand