Hi Ron and Philo,
Ron - Before I posted I did exactly what you are suggesting. The new
RAID array boots up to a certain point and then gets stuck because it
is not running the NVRAID.SYS disk driver, and until RAID is set in
the BIOS one cannot switch to that driver prior to imaging from the
source hard disk to the RAID array.
Philo seems to hint at what the solution might be - do you mind
expanding on that ?
Thanks
Karl
Karl Strausser said:
Hi,
I cannot find a way of converting an existing Windows XP install on a
single hard disk to a 2-disk Raid 1 (mirroring) configuration. The
NVIDIA onboard RAID utility (Asus with NForce 570 SLI for AMD
chipset)
expressly forbids converting an existing hard disk, so I can only
think of doing this using an alternative method.
Has anyone got suggestions ?
(Assuming that what you want to do is to add a second hard drive
identical to the one XP is installed on and use those 2 drives as your
Raid 1 configuration).
You will need a third hard drive and a disk imaging or full disk
backup program that you can run from a bootable diskette or CDROM.
Create a backup image of your Windows XP drive. Remove the backup
drive from the computer (temporarily, for safety).
Wipe out the Windows XP drive. Simplest way is just to delete the
partition.
Install your 2 drives in the RAID configuration as per the
instructions.
Reinstall the drive with your backup image as a (temporary) third hard
drive on a non-RAID channel.
Boot your disk backup/disk image software and restore the backed up
Windows XP drive to the RAID drives.
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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