Undoing RAID 0...

[Landon]

Hi,

A while back I setup a PC with a 10 gig boot drive, two 200gig drives, and one 40gig drive that were all RAID-0'ed together to make one BIG secondary drive.

What I want to do is remove the 40gig drive and replace it with another 200gig (or larger) hard drive. When I tell Windows (Windows 2K Pro is handing doing the RAID) that the 40gig drive is no longer there (and then power down and remove it) am I going to loose everything on the array or will Windows move everything over to the two 200gig drives without loosing anything?

[dickster]

Any time you remove any part of a raid0 array, you kill it all. Since it uses all drives as one, any data is spread out over all of them.

[leroys1000]

You need to image the array with something like norton ghost to
another hard drive.
Change the drive,rebuild the array and restore the image.

[Landon]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

Considering the way that "Striping" works I thought I would kill it all if I did that.
I think I have enough space on the other PCs in the house to move everything off the array rebuild it and then move it back.


Thanks again!

[asa_sniper]

Ya just get yourself 2 more drives and go raid 0,1

I have my raptors in Raid 0. What stripe r u using? I go with a 64k stripe make a 10 gig partition for C put my swap file and program files on that and put my os on the D partition.. Runs Much quicker since the program files are on the edge of the platter