Switching motherboards and utilizing RAID 0

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OK, so I came originally from an older Intel Board and Processor, and I juuuust put in my Gigabyte K7 Triton and a AMD AthXP 2800. I boot up and Windoze (I apologize for the linux slang) freaks out. So I thought, Hmm, I'd sure like to copy C over to D and keep a backup of the program files. So I try the Copy command with a DOS boot floppy, and I realize that it doesn't have to command on it... So I put in the XP Home Install disk, and I can boot into setup. I tried the nifty little "repair" option, and it brought me basically to a command prompt. So I left. I made a fresh install of XP on the computer, and when I go to reboot, the XP Setup gets all mad at me, brings up the blue screen o death, and dumps my ram. Real fun. So I rebooted and the same thing happened. Now I'd also like to utilize my ATA RAID. Is it a very good idea to install XP stripped over multilple drives
There are so many more questions, and ill be back, but I hope to get some answers
Thanks
Zif
 
I have two SATA drives stripped with XP Pro installed and the performance is
quite good. I firmly believe RAID 0 is the way to go if you're a speed
freak. However, I do not recommend using dynamic volumes and letting
Windows strip them because of backup issues. Use your hardware's BIOS to
format and create the stripped set. I created two primary partitions (for C
and D drives) out of the set. You don't gain much for small files (those
stored in MFT) but you'll see a significant improvement with large files.
Use a good defrag tool and you'll have the fastest file system possible with
that equipment.

- Robert -
 
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