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Hello Fernando!
1. I would like to create a RAID 0. The single disk is almost full and I would definitively like to benefit from the speed boost.
2. I didn't realize this was nLite specific until after I posted. This thread was the closest I could find to what I was trying to do and so I started from there. We can have it moved to a more appropriate place.
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Hello all! Great Thread.
After seeing that it is possible to change to AHCI post install, I wonder if there is a way to actually migrate and IDE mode install to a RAID setup. Here is my setup and how I think I could do it:
Windows XP SP3
Gigabyte MA790X-UDP3 - SB750
2x 74GB - One currently holds the operating system and the other is empty.
1x 250GB
Copy the driver and apply the registry edit in the live operating system.
Reboot with BARTPe or Live Linux Distribution
Copy the entire contents from the current drive to the storage disk, possibly back up the MBR
Reboot, change BIOS to RAID mode.
Initialize the array with the RAID BIOS.
Boot from CD, format new array with NTFS, copy boot sector or reinstall with some recovery disk.
Copy storage disk back to new array.
Reboot, hopefully into windows.
I want to know if this seems even remotely possible. I have never used BARTPe and is suspect that I would need to integrate the RAID drivers in order to see the array in order to format. I'm able to use a Linux Live cd, but I'm not sure if I can use it to format the array the new array NTFS. As far as the boot sector, is it possibly to just take the first sector and copy it in using the GNU dd tool? Or would it need to be install with BARTPe or my actual Windows Xp disk in recovery mode. Other the all the files stored in the volume and the MBR is there anything else needed to boot? Is there anything else to cover when it comes to simply copying the contents from one disk to the other?
Thanks in advance.
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Integration of AMD / ATI SB7XX textmode RAID / AHCI drivers on an XP
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Thank you for that info! I have started to give some serious thought to upgrading to Windows 7, for me fresh install will be followed by hours of reinstalling my applications. I figure at that point might as well. That was the primary reason for simply changing my current install to RAID mode.