Greetings, If anyone has background or information on this it would be greatly appreciated. I would like to clone a single SATA drive (Windows XP 32-bit) to a RAID 0 configuration of two SATA drives.
Someone mentioned having the RAID driver installed on the single drive before cloning it onto the RAID(ed) drives. This is what I don't understand as previously I installed the drivers when installing the operating system using the F6 installation method. I am using the onboard hardware RAID controller from Intel. Looking through their documentation it does show that you can migrate from a single drive to a RAID 1 or 0 if you are "RAID ready". They state the way to install the driver is by using the software version of the storage manager. Now to be able to install this you have to have RAID enabled in the BIOS. This article (http://www.intel.com/support/ chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-029980.htm) has a warning though. Warning: If your RAID controller is not enabled, enabling the RAID controller is not recommended or supported when a SATA hard drive is the boot drive. Enabling the RAID controller may cause an immediate blue screen with an 0x0000007b error code, followed by a reboot. If you wish to enable it, you will need to reinstall the operating system. So it seems like you have to have RAID enabled before you install the OS or you won't be able to use this migration method. Anyone know of another method, perhaps using 3rd party software? I want to make sure if this is possible or not. Thank you in advance, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
