Dual boot on Win XP-32bit and Win 7-64bit

Paul_43

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I have a Dell XPS 710 with a nVida chipset(5xx) that the owners manual says will support raid 0 and 1. I now have XP Media edition 2005(32bit) on a striped on two drives(0&1) and would like install Win 7 Ultimate(64 bit) on a second array(mirrored on 3&4 if I need to) and have dual boot.I thought that I would disconect the striped array from 0&1 and than install the new drives there(preferred) and then install Win 7 on a mirrored array there and then reconnect the striped array drive to 3&4 with XP still installed. Will the bios reconize the striped array after moving the drives from 0&1 to 3&4. and also will it run both OSs, one being 32 and the other being 64 bit? I know this is not going to be easy, if possible, but any suggestion would be helpful. Thanks