Raid Setups

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I am waiting for 2 drives to be delivered so that I can install a Striped
Raid into my PC.

I would like to know when the disks are installed does the raid software
format the disks or do they need to be formatted before hand?

Also, if anyone has any suggestions or things to watch out for when making a
Raid drive, please post here - Thanks

Best Regards
 
In order to configure a RAID, you'll need to setup a
RAID configuration. This requires two identical hard
drives, a motherboard with RAID or a RAID controller
card. Then you must install Windows XP from scratch.
Consult your motherboard's User's Manual for detailed
instructions.

Installing RAID
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=1

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htm

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| I am waiting for 2 drives to be delivered so that I can install a Striped
| Raid into my PC.
|
| I would like to know when the disks are installed does the raid software
| format the disks or do they need to be formatted before hand?
|
| Also, if anyone has any suggestions or things to watch out for when making a
| Raid drive, please post here - Thanks
|
| Best Regards
|
 
RAID software????? I presume you have IDE RAID hardware. READ the
documentation for it. You will need to Partition AND format them AFTER
the RAID system is done setting them in the stripped configuration.
 
Carey Frisch said:
In order to configure a RAID, you'll need to setup a
RAID configuration. This requires two identical hard
drives, a motherboard with RAID or a RAID controller
card. Then you must install Windows XP from scratch.
Consult your motherboard's User's Manual for detailed
instructions.

Installing RAID
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=1

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htm
Click to expand...

You don't need to do a re-install of the OS after upgrading to RAID0. I did
it by following these steps:

1. Activate RAID controller in bios or install PCI card. (I haven't tried
the latter scenario)

2. Install drivers after Windows sees new hardware and make sure it is
"working properly" (no "?" or "!") in Device Manager after rebooting.

3. Clone the disk to another physical drive using Ghost or equivalent.

4. Install drives to be used in RAID array.

5. Create RAID array by booting into the controller bios screen.

6. Using FDISK (ME version), partition the array. Ghost cannot use an
unpartitioned drive, and all partitioning info is erased when creating the
array.

7. Restore from the cloned drive.

8. Boot into Windows.

This same procedure can be used to upgrade from a PATA drive to a single
SATA drive using an on-chip or on-board controller. I did it first moving
from PATA to SATA with a single drive (ICH5R), then from single SATA to SATA
RAID0 (also on ICH5R). Worked like a champ both times.
 
Thanks Bob, I would have never have thought the drives would have been
formated after the raid was setup..... Its a hardware raid from a chip on the
motherboard. (A7N8X Deluxe).
 
Carey Frisch said:
In order to configure a RAID, you'll need to setup a
RAID configuration. This requires two identical hard
drives, a motherboard with RAID or a RAID controller
card. Then you must install Windows XP from scratch.
Consult your motherboard's User's Manual for detailed
instructions.
Click to expand...

Sorry but I have RAID 0 and use Master on it to attach odd drives now and
then, none of which match any other HD attached anywhere to my system.

Not sure why you say you would need to do as you said in my sort of raid. In
a mirrored real-time situation, sure. Not sure where, from the OP's post,
you could get which raid he meant.
 
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