Promise Raid O

[Dai]

Hi,

I've got an Asus A7V266-E mobo with the Promise Raid chip on it.

Now I had one 60GB disk in the system running Windows 2000 and now I've come into possession of another and wanted to set up a Raid 0 array. The thing is, I really don't want to start setting up the system from scratch, if I can avoid it.

Is there any way or utility that will convert one drive to be part of a Raid 0 array without losing all the data?

Thanks,

Dai

 

[Toejam31]

Perhaps you could backup (image) the drive, and once the array was created, place the data back on the formatted partition. Norton Ghost or Drive Image could be used for creating the image.

I don't know of any way to logically expand a disk onto a striped array without the array already existing in some form. And the IDE controller must support this feature, or even that won't work.

Anyone else have an idea?

Toejam31

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[FatBurger]

Toejam is right, the only way is to Ghost it onto another drive/machine and then image it back.

There's no other way to do it.

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