Raid help and advice!

MJB · 10-02-2009, 15:04

I currently have a raid 0 set up on XP with 2 x 160 GB discs. I want to do a clean install of Vista but WITHOUT the raid 0 set up, so I have 1 partitioned 160 GB disc (with the OS on one partition) and a 2nd 160 GB disc as back up.

My concern is the raid. Do I simply go into the bios and disable the raid setting or is there something else I should be aware of?

I can't tell you how many hours I've searched for this advice and then I thought of you guys on here (shame on me

).

Any advice VERY much appreciated!

Kymmy · 10-02-2009, 15:14

Riad0 is striped data, so you'd have to copy across all of the data first before turning off the raid, otherwise you won;t be able to access the data

Aragorn · 10-02-2009, 15:32

Assuming you've already saved your data, then yes disable the raid and Vista should see two independent disks.

MJB · 10-02-2009, 16:54

Yep, all data is backed up in duplicate with really important stuff in QUADRUPLECATE (I'm a bit sad like that

)

So do I change bios to disable raid, alter to boot from CDrom and then reboot with Vista disc in - that simple?

Aragorn · 10-02-2009, 17:30

Should be