Johanpp said:When one drive packs up I lose my data. I want to use drive C: for my Operating System and drive D: for all my stuff PLUS an image of drive C: so it takes minutes to restore WinXP when it gets unstable, which it does from time to time. That way I do not have to re-install any of my applications because I do not have to re-format, ever. This system works very well on my other computer. I am not really after the speed so much as security.
I just looked at your post again. If you count you will find I have too many drives. Well, the Dell has 4 Ide connections, two of which go to the DVD's. Then I use one Sata connection for te 500GB and I have an additional Promise card installed which gives me large drive capability for two more drives. I have one SATA connection spare. So as I am a hard drive junky I will have to see to that.zipperman said:I'm only useing 1 SATA drive,partioned in 3 parts.
C is my OS,D is my Music and E is pictures,movies and misc data.
I just reinstalled XP to C.First i copied things like Favorites,My Documents
and many others to D to move back to C:
Whats wrong with that system ? Drive D can be on the same drive as C.
Besides you might buy another SATA device for connection 2.
SATA DVD'S are available i think.
Yes, we have drifted off my original post asking advice about how to get rid of the RAID arrangement so I can use the two physical drives independantly.zipperman said:Theres nowhere i see a count of how many drives you have.
I have two IDE's.I use 1 only,Master is DVD Burner,Slave is DVD-Rom.
Re too many,You don't need a Promise Card.
? Too many connections or too many drives.
So I'll unsubscribe after next reply as i can't answer your Topic Title.
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like I said, use a third device for backups.Johanpp said:When one drive packs up I lose my data. I want to use drive C: for my Operating System and drive D: for all my stuff PLUS an image of drive C: so it takes minutes to restore WinXP when it gets unstable, which it does from time to time. That way I do not have to re-install any of my applications because I do not have to re-format, ever. This system works very well on my other computer. I am not really after the speed so much as security.