copy existing Windows XP installation to a RAID 0 disks

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All,

I have Windows XP SP2 installed in an SATA disk. I want to use two in
RAID 0.
How do I move a bootable Windows XP installation to a RAID 0?

I have 2 UATA disks I can test on.. I can also set them up in a raid.

Do you know what software can do that for me?
I tried to play around with Norton Ghost but it can't copy dynamic
disks.. as far as I can see.

I have a 5th disk I can boot on while I copy over the existing
installation.

Regards
Lars
 
[email protected] said:
All,

I have Windows XP SP2 installed in an SATA disk. I want to use two in
RAID 0.
How do I move a bootable Windows XP installation to a RAID 0?

I have 2 UATA disks I can test on.. I can also set them up in a raid.

Do you know what software can do that for me?
I tried to play around with Norton Ghost but it can't copy dynamic
disks.. as far as I can see.

I have a 5th disk I can boot on while I copy over the existing
installation.

Regards
Lars
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You have to reinstall. XP doesn't like it when you pull the hardware
rug out from under it.

You'll get the INACESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE blue screen of death.

Do you have a hardware RAID controller? You can't set up RAID on the
boot partition in XP otherwise.
 
Ron Sommer said:
I hope you have a good backup plan.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/singleLevel0-c.html
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/RAID/
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If one drive goes down, then you lose both drives.
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No, you loose all the data, but the 2nd drive doesn't "go down". [Yeah,
same difference, I know].

So, how is this different than if you had just a single drive in the first
place? It isn't. Don't scare away from RAID 0 for nonsensical reasons...
 
Real men do not take backup! ... this is only me Windows boost disk
anyway all the data is on a nother disk that is not in a raid system.
 
I am using software raid 0 under Windows XP.

Just changing the drive will cause this blue screen?
I have just changed the processor, MB and graphics card and could boot
on the new system with the same disk without any problem.
Lars
 
Sorry yes I have hardware raid 0 or 5 in the new raid system on my
motherboard.

My software raid 0 is my data disks... dorry for the confusion from my
side.
 
Sorry yes I have hardware raid 0 or 5 in the new raid system on my
motherboard.

My software raid 0 is my data disks... dorry for the confusion from my
side.
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As I see, you have XP on dynamic disk, and you want to copy it to RAID
0 set. I know, that Drive Backup from Paragon can handle dynamic disks.
They have several editions, afaik pro version can do that. You can
clone, or backup/restore XP partition to new RAID. And also you
shouldn't forget about sysprep, as helps in eleminating hardware
difference problems.
 
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