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Aragorn · 14-11-2005, 11:06

Does Windows setup recognise the disk hardware? ie does it show the partition table on the two drives? If so, have you used Windows setup to repartition the drives? This article (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...b_cnc_opkt.asp) talks about installing XP on dynamic disks. Essentially, unless its a simple dynamic volume (one drive) you can't install XP on it (probably holds for XP64). I think you need to completely wipe both disks (new partition table) before you can load XP or XP64. Going back to the original question, you cannot split a Raid 0 array (hardware or software) and retain the data. Raid 0 data is stripped across two disks, so each physical drive only has half of the data! I apologise for the flow of the message - the new VB editor seems to be stripping my carraige returns!!

14-11-2005, 11:06	#14
Aragorn Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minas Tirith, Gondor Age: 61 Posts: 3,458	Re: [Merged] RAID Array and XP questions Does Windows setup recognise the disk hardware? ie does it show the partition table on the two drives? If so, have you used Windows setup to repartition the drives? This article (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...b_cnc_opkt.asp) talks about installing XP on dynamic disks. Essentially, unless its a simple dynamic volume (one drive) you can't install XP on it (probably holds for XP64). I think you need to completely wipe both disks (new partition table) before you can load XP or XP64. Going back to the original question, you cannot split a Raid 0 array (hardware or software) and retain the data. Raid 0 data is stripped across two disks, so each physical drive only has half of the data! I apologise for the flow of the message - the new VB editor seems to be stripping my carraige returns!!