Hi guys,
I have finally got the cash together for a couple of SATA drives (unfortunately I could not afford raptors
) which should be arriving in the next day or 2.
Currently my system is running on a 250GB IDE drive which has been screaming for a re-format for the last few months. And whenever I format my PC I always format to a blank spare hard drive so that the chances of data loss is minimal (we all forget *something* when backing up prior to a reformat when not taking everything).
So what I would like to do is perform a fresh clean install of windows on the 2 new drives (in RAID1... Im going for redundancy over performance). The only reason that I have not formatted until now is because my "spare" drive died whilst in the middle of trying to do a format a few weeks ago. This is why I do it to a spare drive, I at least had the original disk to go back to!
Now having never set up a raid in a non-scsi system before, I just want to check/ask a few things to be sure I'm not going to balls the whole thing up.
I have not changed any of the default settings on my m/b (the one in my sig) with regards to sata or raid. I assume I will have to (at work atm so cant actually look at the bios atm). Is there normally a key you have to press to enter the raid utility? I'll go hunting on the gigabyte website in a min bt its always nice to get someone elses perspective etc
I already have the raid drivers ready on a floppy so thats all good...
Once I have completed installing windows, mobo drivers etc and got windows up to date, I woudl like to hook up my IDE drive back up to the system (of course I will install windows without it connected) so taht I can start re-arranging the data. Now will the fact that this drive will still be bootable cause me anything to worry about? or should I instead go through the process of taking all the data I need onto an external drive?
Or is it just something as simple as changing the boot order to point to the raid before the ide?
Cheers for any help
I have finally got the cash together for a couple of SATA drives (unfortunately I could not afford raptors
) which should be arriving in the next day or 2.Currently my system is running on a 250GB IDE drive which has been screaming for a re-format for the last few months. And whenever I format my PC I always format to a blank spare hard drive so that the chances of data loss is minimal (we all forget *something* when backing up prior to a reformat when not taking everything).
So what I would like to do is perform a fresh clean install of windows on the 2 new drives (in RAID1... Im going for redundancy over performance). The only reason that I have not formatted until now is because my "spare" drive died whilst in the middle of trying to do a format a few weeks ago. This is why I do it to a spare drive, I at least had the original disk to go back to!
Now having never set up a raid in a non-scsi system before, I just want to check/ask a few things to be sure I'm not going to balls the whole thing up.
I have not changed any of the default settings on my m/b (the one in my sig) with regards to sata or raid. I assume I will have to (at work atm so cant actually look at the bios atm). Is there normally a key you have to press to enter the raid utility? I'll go hunting on the gigabyte website in a min bt its always nice to get someone elses perspective etc
I already have the raid drivers ready on a floppy so thats all good...
Once I have completed installing windows, mobo drivers etc and got windows up to date, I woudl like to hook up my IDE drive back up to the system (of course I will install windows without it connected) so taht I can start re-arranging the data. Now will the fact that this drive will still be bootable cause me anything to worry about? or should I instead go through the process of taking all the data I need onto an external drive?
Or is it just something as simple as changing the boot order to point to the raid before the ide?
Cheers for any help
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