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Help With Setting up a RAID 0 Array

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  • NAS / RAID
  • Storage
  • Hard Drives
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May 25, 2014 12:11:30 PM

Hello, and here is my problem, I have 2 1tb hard drives which are identical. second i have a 750gb hard drive. At the moment i have my windows installation located on one of the 1tb HDD's. However i want to set up the 2 1tb drives in a raid 0 or 5 Array. I plan on doing this by taking and changing a few settings in the registry and bios to convert the system chipset to RAID. then create an image of that on the 750gb drive (I've only used about 500gigs worth of the 1tb windows is installed to). then setting up RAID on the two 1tb Drives. then moving the image from the 750gb back to the 2tb RAID array. Is this possible?

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May 28, 2014 12:56:47 AM

SO let me get this stragiht. You don't make it clear if you have data on the 750 GB. If you do you will need to back that up to another drive not one of the 2 1TB's. Then you can clone the 1TB that has the windows install to the 750GB if you have no data on the 750GB you can just skip straight there.

No need to modify any registry settings for RAID or anything unless your booting off the raid. It sounds like you will not be.

Then once all your data is backed up depedning on your motherboard usually right after boot you can access the Raid Settings by CTRL+H or similar keys. Then from there you can tell it to make a RAID 0 with the 2 1TB's. Remember if one drive failes you WILL LOSE EVERYTHING. You can not do a RAID 5 unless you get at least another 1TB drive. You need at least 3 for a RAID 5 and 4 drives for a RAID 6 or RAID 10.
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