replacing my hard drive

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Hi!

I have just finished building a new PC (A8N-Premium MOBO, 4400 X2 Processor,
XP Pro)
When I ordered my components I ordered a PATA hard drive by mistake (thanks
to hitachi who have the same model numbers for both SATA II and PATA drives!)

Being impatient, I used the PATA drive instead of returning it. The system
has been up and running for a few weeks now and I'm really happy with it.

However, I have now ordered 2 SATA II drives which I plan to use in RAID 0
config as my main system drive, I will use the old PATA drive for manual
backups.

My question is this - I plan to install and configure the two new drives as
RAID 0 and then transfer an image of my PATA drive to the new RAID drive. If
I do tis will I have a problem in persuading windows that the RAID array is
now my system drive?

I will use norton ghost to move the image of my C: drive to the new RAID
drive and then try to boot up the system with the old PATA disconnected.

Can anybody forsee any problems in doing this?

Thanks,


Rhys

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Rhys

I know that it is the 'in thing' these days to have a Raid setup, but there
are some things that you should know about it..

http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

As well as advantages, there are also disadvantages.. for general computing,
it is almost a waste of time..