Hi all,
First of all a list of my system:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo'
Athlon 64 3200+
1GB Ram (2 x Geil CL2 512MB PC3500)
2 x PNY Verto Geforce 6600GT's in SLI config
Hard disks are:
1 x Maxtor Diamond Max 10 200GB SATA
1 x Maxtor Diamond Max 10 300GB SATA
The motherboard has 4 SATA connections and 4 RAID SATA connections. At the moment I have the 200GB drive at SATA 1 (C:/ windows XP OS boot), and 300GB on SATA 2 connection (D:/ used for storage of music etc.).
Is there any way of connecting the 2 drives to the SATA RAID connections to get RAID0 without losing any data? I want to just swap the connections over on the mobo' and set up RAID 0 without formating either drive.
If this is not possible, could I back up my 300GB drive, format it and set up RAID0 keeping the XP installation (which would then spread to the 2 drives) without having to reinstall XP?
When I boot up there is an option pops up to setup RAID from the BIOS for a about 5 seconds. Any one used this on this mobo'?
I'm not worried about redundancy so not an issue.
Thanks in advance,
Gregsy
First of all a list of my system:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo'
Athlon 64 3200+
1GB Ram (2 x Geil CL2 512MB PC3500)
2 x PNY Verto Geforce 6600GT's in SLI config
Hard disks are:
1 x Maxtor Diamond Max 10 200GB SATA
1 x Maxtor Diamond Max 10 300GB SATA
The motherboard has 4 SATA connections and 4 RAID SATA connections. At the moment I have the 200GB drive at SATA 1 (C:/ windows XP OS boot), and 300GB on SATA 2 connection (D:/ used for storage of music etc.).
Is there any way of connecting the 2 drives to the SATA RAID connections to get RAID0 without losing any data? I want to just swap the connections over on the mobo' and set up RAID 0 without formating either drive.
If this is not possible, could I back up my 300GB drive, format it and set up RAID0 keeping the XP installation (which would then spread to the 2 drives) without having to reinstall XP?
When I boot up there is an option pops up to setup RAID from the BIOS for a about 5 seconds. Any one used this on this mobo'?
I'm not worried about redundancy so not an issue.
Thanks in advance,
Gregsy