edmoncu Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 i saw an article at tom's hardware on enabling raid 5 under windows xp, which involves hex-editing some files...i was wondering if it could be applied to the source xp files (by hexediting them and recompressing them with makecab)...the files needed to be hex-edited were: dmboot.sys, dmconfig.dll and, dmadmin.exe.although i already tried hexediting the files, im hesitant if it will automatically enable raid5 support once i re-compress the hex-edited files.note: the article at tom's is somewhat not consistent with my setup, especially at the dmboot.sys file... the offset was different on my setup. i am using winxp pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Using dynamic disks, you can create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes. Why do you have to hack files to achieve what is already available?Unless this is for XP Home, which no mention of in the article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmoncu Posted March 24, 2005 Author Share Posted March 24, 2005 sorry for the late response, but do you mean XP Pro already has that feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 You can do RAID configurations with the diskpart.exe utility. Why would you want to install XP Pro on a RAID 5 array? Is there something specific you are trying to accomplish?RAID 0 or RAID 1 would seem to make more sense for performance reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
un4given1 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 RAID 5 maximizes disk space. RAID 1 halves your disk space. Help him with his problem, don't criticize his choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I thought using WinXP to do this is actually creating 'software' raid, vs using an actual raid controller to do this... which Ive gathered isnt really recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max75 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 In respons to Durex:Software raid5 slows your performance for about 10% compared to hardware raid.The problem with hardware raid though is that when your controller blows up and it cannot be replaced by the same type, you need to reinstall your raid-set loosing all your data.On the other hand, trusting microsoft to never fail a software raid.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmoncu Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 i was wondering, does winxp pro already support software-based raid5? or do i still need these modified files that the site i mentioned tells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 You need to modify the files. Only Server2K3 normally supports software RAID5. That being said, I don't think you'll be able to build a RAID array during XP Setup and am not sure how it would handle an existing array. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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