RAID question

[mrfaces]

I have a Velociraptor drive with Win 7 Pro already installed.
I would like in future to buy another Velociraptor drive and set up Raid 0. I have never set up Raid before and was wondering do you have to reinstall Win 7 Pro when I set up Raid 0? Is there a way to set up Raid without losing my disk image?

Thanks

 

[sminlal]

There's no way to "convert" a single disk to a RAID-0 volume. So you'll either have to reinstall Windows and all your applications, or make an image backup of your partition and then restore it to the newly-created RAID-0 volume.

 

[mrfaces]

Okay, thanks sminlal

 

[sub mesa]

With the Intel drivers this is possible i think, they can also migrate from one RAID level to another and other cool stuff.

You would need to install their driver/software package (rapid storage technologies or something like that) and use their utility to activate the migration.

 

[sminlal]

With the Intel drivers this is possible i think, they can also migrate from one RAID level to another and other cool stuff.

Really? I had no idea, thanks for the correction!

 

[sub mesa]

Yes, the Intel drivers are pretty feature-loaded, unlike most other onboard RAIDs. None of the other vendors i know can do this. Only hardware RAID like Areca.