disabling RAID 0 without losing data - is it possible?

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Austin Newton Rice

I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives). After
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration for what
I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have one
drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a storage
drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a reinstall of
Windows/losing all the data I have on there? Any help would be much
appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks in
advance for your help.
 
Austin Newton Rice, the beady-eyed, complacent cock jockey and trainer of
circus clowns, meandered:

| I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives).
| After using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal
| configuration for what I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable
| RAID and basically have one drive be my operating system drive and
| have the other one serve as a storage drive. Is there a way of doing
| this without having to do a reinstall of Windows/losing all the data
| I have on there? Any help would be much appreciated. I'm using XP
| Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks in advance for your help.

Buy a third drive and some imaging software that works properly with RAID.

If you're too thick to guess the rest, which I assume you are having asked
the question in the first place, then post back.

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Unable to do that with RAID..Why though would one be unsatisfied with
a more responsive disk array.If you set RAID as a mirrored set,try setting
to a striped set,the performance gained over mirrored is substantial,over a
IDE set is alot.
 
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