Backup your system using a free product such as clonezilla, enable RAID in your Bios, set up the Raid ) config in the RAID config screen (pre boot) and then restore the system.
This should work? Richard Reeman www.rnr-it.co.uk MCP On 16 Apr, 22:00, cizzo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
