Raid 0...need some help with formatting

SilverThief

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Ok. I currently have a WD 80GB HD with a 10G partition for my OS. The other 70GB is full of mp3s and programs which I want to keep. I have a second 80GB HD coming that I want to run in a Raid 0 array.
Here's where I need help.

I want to delete everything off the 10GB partition and delete the partition itself. Thought I would use partition magic, but not too sure how to go about doing it.
I definitely need to keep everything on the remaining 70GB.
At the moment I dont have another HD to transfer all of that stuff onto temporarily, so I can do a complete reformat/partition and start from scratch.
Any suggestions?

 

LED

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You'll have to lose everything and recreate RAID O as both drives work in Unison...that's why I have larger HD's that I can Ghost to in case I lose it which will prolly happen...so best bet is to aquire an extra HD
 

Tsaico

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I also found that raid 0 is pretty pointless. Yeah, it is cool to have one massive drive, but found that after all the work, it is just easier to have a larger drive and the thoght of one drive crapping out, (and how many of us have had that happed?) and losing everything is just a bit much for me....