Creating a partition on RAID0

[xBones85x]

I currentley have 2 300gb HDs set up in a RAID0 configeration on my Dell XPS420 running Windows Vista 32bit. i would like to create 2 partitions, one for the OS and one for my Music and Videos.

does anyone have a step by step guide/tutorial on how i can do this?

 

[DelJo63]

not a good idea - - raid0 is fragile as-is.

The right sequence is

1. start over
2. do the partitioning of the physical drive(s)
3. then initialize the raid-x on the appropriate partitions of your choice
4. format the remaining non-raid partitions
5. now load your data

On (3), make sure you use one partition per physical drive and don't allow the raid-x to be only one one HD - - kind of silly isn't it!

 

[xBones85x]

Would you advise against setting the hard drives in Raid 0. If so how would I change it back to to individual drives. One for the OS and one for personal files.

 

[DelJo63]

Would you advise against setting the hard drives in Raid 0. If so how would I change it back to to individual drives. One for the OS and one for personal files.

Even Microsoft recommends against RAID-X for the boot drive.
Sadly, breaking a raid-0 into two separate HDs will require a reformat of both

If you get a full backup before you reformat, at least you can recover the user files

 

[xBones85x]

how do i do a full back up?