disabling RAID 0 without losing data - is it possible?

I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives). AFter
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration for what
I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have one
drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a storage
drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a reinstall of
Windows/losing all the data I have on there? Any help would be much
appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks in
advance for your help.

"Austin Newton Rice" wrote in message
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I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives).
AFter
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration for
what
I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have one
drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a
storage
drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a reinstall of
Windows/losing all the data I have on there?

NOT easily. Start over or do an image backup like
TrueImage(www.acronis.com) or Ghost. Restore the image after thr RAID 0 is
disassembled.

Any help would be much
appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks in
advance for your help.

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:51:35 GMT, "Austin Newton Rice"
wrote:

I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives). AFter
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration for what
I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have one
drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a storage
drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a reinstall of
Windows/losing all the data I have on there? Any help would be much
appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks in
advance for your help.


No, you can't undo a RAID0 onto the same drives. You must
copy off the data, delete the array, copy back the data
(after recreating new partitions and/or formatting if your
backup and restore data strategy doesn't do so for you
automatically).

I don't think you can do Ghost on RAID drives.
--
David Wang - Tech Support
Extreme Node - Blade servers based on the standard ATX form factor
http://www.extremenode.com


"Ron Reaugh" wrote in message
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"Austin Newton Rice" wrote in message
ink.net...
I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives).
AFter
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration for
what
I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have one
drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a
storage
drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a reinstall of
Windows/losing all the data I have on there?

NOT easily. Start over or do an image backup like
TrueImage(www.acronis.com) or Ghost. Restore the image after thr RAID 0
is
disassembled.

Any help would be much
appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks in
advance for your help.

"David Wang" wrote in message
vers.com...
I don't think you can do Ghost on RAID drives.

Sure you can but not on an individual drive. Do a Ghost image of the RAID 0
array to a file located somewhere else and then restore that image file
wherever later.

David Wang - Tech Support
Extreme Node - Blade servers based on the standard ATX form factor
http://www.extremenode.com


"Ron Reaugh" wrote in message
...

"Austin Newton Rice" wrote in message
ink.net...
I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives).
AFter
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration
for
what
I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have
one
drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a
storage
drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a reinstall
of
Windows/losing all the data I have on there?

NOT easily. Start over or do an image backup like
TrueImage(www.acronis.com) or Ghost. Restore the image after thr RAID 0
is
disassembled.

Any help would be much
appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter. Thanks
in
advance for your help.

Like Ron Reaugh said, I would recommend TrueImage. Dont go for Ghost,
its not fun.

www.acronis.com

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Sorry, but you are hosed on this one. The only way to break the RAID array
is to reformat your drives and reinstall your OS and applications.

--
DaveW



"Austin Newton Rice" wrote in message
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I am using RAID 0 (i.e. my data is being written across two drives). AFter
using it for a while, I realize this is not the ideal configuration for
what I want to do. Ideally, I'd like to disable RAID and basically have
one drive be my operating system drive and have the other one serve as a
storage drive. Is there a way of doing this without having to do a
reinstall of Windows/losing all the data I have on there? Any help would
be much appreciated. I'm using XP Home Edition, should that matter.
Thanks in advance for your help.

"Thomas Vendetta" wrote in
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Like Ron Reaugh said, I would recommend TrueImage. Dont go for Ghost,
its not fun.

www.acronis.com

Damn, I never would have said that but you're right TrueImage is FUN.

"Thomas Vendetta" wrote in
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: Like Ron Reaugh said, I would recommend TrueImage. Dont go for Ghost,
: its not fun.
:
: www.acronis.com
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What about Drive Image?

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"Thomas Vendetta" wrote
in message ...
: Like Ron Reaugh said, I would recommend TrueImage. Dont go for Ghost,
: its not fun.
:
: www.acronis.com
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What about Drive Image?



I recently tried both Ghost (The version prior to the one that came out
this month, 9-2004)and Drive Image 7 for a hdd upgrade. I could not make
Ghost work. It wanted to boot to DOS and could not find drivers or
couldn't find the destination drive (an external usb hdd). Drive Image
worked great. Drive Image runs completely in windows, 'NO' rebooting. I
had to play with some settings but nothing too diffucult. I have to
wholeheartedly recommend Drive Image over Ghost.