Hello,
I just have a couple questions that I am hoping someone can help with. After 6 years years of great experience with my previous PC build, it finally began to succumb to it's age, so I decided it was time to splurge a bit and get what I neded and build another complete, more up-to-date PC (basic specs should appear someplace if profile shows correctly). This time around I am working with a couple new things, most notable RAID and a different OS- Win XP. I got everything assembled a little over a week ago, and have spent the last week, while also spending the last couple weeks searching and reading to find and learn everything I didn't know before, since I like to know as much as I can in advance. I'm now finally ready to go and do my RAID setup, XP install, Etc., not that I found everything I wnated and either have it memorized or readily available on my backup PC....
However, there was one thing I could not find it specificly stated thru everything I looked up, so I am hoping someone here would be kind enough to help with...
- During XP's Setup and Install (after RAID is enabeled in BIOS, and RAID 0 is setup via the MB's onboard utility, (of course) will XP do the Partioning and Format for BOTH Hard Drives (brand new + bare), or just the XP Boot Drive (C: drive)?
I saw many places where it said that it does this during setup for the drive the OS will go on, I just didn't see it stated specificly anyplace wether or not if, during setup, it will also do the partition/format for any other seperate, additional drives, (a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Etc.) too, if such drives were present and had not been done yet.
-Also, while I am here, I am just curious if anyone would know what the approx. size of a Full Backup file would be, with the back-up taking place right after XP w/SP2, Full driver updates/installsand, and all available MS updates completed? (I'm just looking to see if anyone knows off-hand what the Approximate size would be, it's not necessary to be 100% exact....).
I just have a couple questions that I am hoping someone can help with. After 6 years years of great experience with my previous PC build, it finally began to succumb to it's age, so I decided it was time to splurge a bit and get what I neded and build another complete, more up-to-date PC (basic specs should appear someplace if profile shows correctly). This time around I am working with a couple new things, most notable RAID and a different OS- Win XP. I got everything assembled a little over a week ago, and have spent the last week, while also spending the last couple weeks searching and reading to find and learn everything I didn't know before, since I like to know as much as I can in advance. I'm now finally ready to go and do my RAID setup, XP install, Etc., not that I found everything I wnated and either have it memorized or readily available on my backup PC....
However, there was one thing I could not find it specificly stated thru everything I looked up, so I am hoping someone here would be kind enough to help with...
- During XP's Setup and Install (after RAID is enabeled in BIOS, and RAID 0 is setup via the MB's onboard utility, (of course) will XP do the Partioning and Format for BOTH Hard Drives (brand new + bare), or just the XP Boot Drive (C: drive)?
I saw many places where it said that it does this during setup for the drive the OS will go on, I just didn't see it stated specificly anyplace wether or not if, during setup, it will also do the partition/format for any other seperate, additional drives, (a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Etc.) too, if such drives were present and had not been done yet.
-Also, while I am here, I am just curious if anyone would know what the approx. size of a Full Backup file would be, with the back-up taking place right after XP w/SP2, Full driver updates/installsand, and all available MS updates completed? (I'm just looking to see if anyone knows off-hand what the Approximate size would be, it's not necessary to be 100% exact....).