I'm looking to 'break' my RAID 1 mirror apart and use the two HDD's separately. To provide some more background, I am currently using the mirror (IDE, 2 x 60 GB) as backup w/ Norton Ghost. However, as I am upgrading my video card to something that eats more power, I want to only use one of the 60 GB HDD's for backup, without RAID. My controller is a Promise 20276 integrated into my motherboard, and it utilizes the FastBuild utility.
I found out how to delete my array from the manual, and I know I should probably disable the RAID through BIOS (since there's an option there). Is there anything else I have to do to retain the data on the 60 GB drive, or can I just have the HDD plugged into a free IDE connector w/ corresponding jumper setting?
I was searching the forums for anything applicable and came across this.
Although my HDD's are fine, it seems like pretending one of them will fail is analogous to removing that drive from the array...? Do I need to worry about the boot.ini or running in a degraded state?
I found out how to delete my array from the manual, and I know I should probably disable the RAID through BIOS (since there's an option there). Is there anything else I have to do to retain the data on the 60 GB drive, or can I just have the HDD plugged into a free IDE connector w/ corresponding jumper setting?
I was searching the forums for anything applicable and came across this.
Although my HDD's are fine, it seems like pretending one of them will fail is analogous to removing that drive from the array...? Do I need to worry about the boot.ini or running in a degraded state?