copy drive image into Raid 0

[zizo]

I just bought 2xSATA drives and I was wondering if I can use norton ghost to back up the old drive and copy it into these two SATA in raid 0. This seems to be much easier than reinstalling windows, but I don't know if it's possible. Also Is it possible to create 2 small partition on each drive and run those two partitions in raid 0 but the rest just as normal drives?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts!

 

[Jayczar]

if you will be booting from the drives you may run into problems
since the SATA RAID driver will not be present.

 

[zizo]

yes, I tired it and it crashed!

Does anyone know how to turn my windows xp into raid without a need for a fresh install of windows?

 

[nomadh]

I've used ghost to backup a raid system. Basicly if dos thinks its 1 drive (HW raid) then it seems ghost will go along with it. How about if you ghost the non raid image onto the raid them do a reinstall-fake /repair and also hit f6 to load your serial drivers into the os. Also you may want to run the mostlycreativesoftware.com reg fix for xp/2k. It makes the os very compliant when swaping hardware in the future. I have an xp image that will run on sata amd64 systems and old p3intel systems. Probably run on a P1 if i could stand the wait.

 

[zizo]

where can I find this "mostlycreativesoftware.com reg fix?" I googled it but found nothing!