Creating a partition on RAID0

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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?
 
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!
 
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.
 
xBones85x said:
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.
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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
 
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