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madhumper69   09-05-2009 at 04:20:37 AM

I am currently running Raid 5 and wish to have 3 separate drives ,how would I go about saving all my data and installing windows?

Data can be retrieved from 2 drives so i would think i would be able to remove a drive install windows and somehow get the data on the 2 other drives?

Help would be greatly appreciated!! :o :sarcastic: :whistle: :pt1cable: :(

Thanks

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   09-05-2009 at 09:58:49 AM

The data in a RAID-5 set is spread across all of the drives. The only way to extract it will be to copy it to a different (ie, fourth) drive of sufficient capacity. Once you've done that, you can reconfigure the three drives and copy data back to them.

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madhumper69   09-05-2009 at 02:20:14 PM

Thank you for the reply, in this case I think what I will do is save everything in one folder and RAR the folder in 4.5gb chunks and burn on the data to a DVD I am not wasting bluray discs for this... I have probably 800GB of data to save, its going to be a pain in the ass, unless i can borrow a drive or something.

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