RAID 0 setup

[crobb100]

Hi-

I have an Asus P4PE with a 120 GB HD, EIDE. My MB has a built-in RAID controller, and SATA controller. I want to get an additional 120 GB SATA drive and create a RAID 0 setup. I understand that I have to reformat my present drive and set up the RAID from scratch. I would like to use my original EIDE drive and the new SATA drive.

How can I best preserve the data on my present drive? I have Norton Ghost, and a home net setup. Will I have to install the OS (Win XP Pro) first, and then somehow add in my original programs?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[MichaelD]

OK, so you currently have your OS/files on the IDE drive, right?

You want to create a RAID 0 stripe using two SATA drives, right?

OPTION ONE
Here's the lazy way. What you need to do is this:

1. Install the two SATA drives (you should already have the SATA controller driver loaded from when you installed the mobo drivers...check to be sure!)

2. Create your stripe by going into the SATA controllers bios/control panel at bootup.

3. Bootup from the IDE drive as normal.

4. Format the array using NTFS

5. Using a Norton Ghost Bootdisk, you SHOULD be able to just ghost everything over to the array. This is not guaranteed however. It will most probably work...but you'll find out for sure!

OPTION TWO
Here's the smart way:

What I would do, if it were me, is do a fresh install of your OS onto your fresh and clean SATA array. You already HAVE all your files and such on your IDE drive; it would be a quick and easy job of just transferring everything over via Windows Explorer!!

 

[crobb100]

whoops-nope-I am going to use the existing IDE drive and a new SATA drive as the array, the present drive will be in the array. Not 2 new SATAs.

Thanks for the info, though. Maybe you can tell me how to do it with this setup.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You'll need to read your friendly manual -- often the 2 controllers are independent so you can't use "one fo each" to build a RAID. You may need to add 2 SATA.

 

[crobb100]

Can use either-RAID on this MB has 3 options:

1. One parallel ATA HDD to PRI_RAID1 connector and one SATA HDD to either of the two SATA connectors, using separate parallel or serial ATA connectors.

2. One SATA drive to each serial ATA connector using separate SATA cables.

3. One SATA HDD to PRI_RAID1 connector and one SATA HDD to either of the two SATA connectors. (Although I don't know how you connect a SATA HDD to the PRI_RAID1 connector-it looks like an IDE connector to me).

So now what? heh