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Hellfire
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PostPosted: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:34:23    Post Subject: Going from single HD to Raid 0 Reply with quote View Single Post
How hard is it to take a hard drive with my OS, and convert it to a Raid 0 without having to reformat it?

I know it's easy to do when you're formatting the system, but since I just did that last night, I don't want to have to do it again already...

Might do it anyways, don't have anything pressing going on right now LOL

Hmm...maybe go get another drive so I can have it in Raid 0, and still have a drive to play with other OS's with...
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PostPosted: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:45:10    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
With nvRAID it supposedly easy... But I have never tried it. You can supposedly go from single, to RAID 0, RAID 1, all with a few clicks.
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PostPosted: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:55:07    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Guess I'll try that out tonight then...

After I get a baseline benchmark of 7800GT SLI Smile heheheh
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PostPosted: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:47:35    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Well, tried it real quick last night, and it didn't like it. Came up with errors and wouldn't boot Sad Guess it's gonna be another reformat then...
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PostPosted: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:59:13    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Hellfire wrote:
Well, tried it real quick last night, and it didn't like it. Came up with errors and wouldn't boot Sad Guess it's gonna be another reformat then...


i have had very good luck with nvRaid. At first I was skeptical, but I have been able to add raid 0 and 1 arrays to my existing system with no problems and a mininum of installation problems...
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PostPosted: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:25:46    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Did you do that through the BIOS or the nvraid gui within windows?
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PostPosted: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:42:12    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Went through the bios because I was taking my OS drive from single to raid 0. No biggie anyways heheheh getting a new MB this week so would've had to clean it out anyways LOL
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