Formatting Drives that are part of RAID

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Nagglfar

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I currently have 3 hard drives, and I have two raid 0 volumes. Since I converted the drives to dynamic on xp pro to do this, 2 of the drives show up as not being formatted. Should I try and format these drives as NTFS if they are currently part of a raid volume?

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I currently have 3 hard drives, and I have two raid 0 volumes. Since I converted the drives to dynamic on xp pro to do this, 2 of the drives show up as not being formatted. Should I try and format these drives as NTFS if they are currently part of a raid volume?
Raid-0 is not formatted the same as anything else. When you converted to dynamic,
you effectively made the two HDs, just one BIGGER drive which is normally formatted.

The is no performance gain using dynamic disks; they just make more storage space available.
 
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