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post #1 of 9
12/26/05 at 11:49am
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Hi everyone. 1st post from a happy owner of a 4438 with raid setup. Im perhaps asking questions about the obvious but is it possible to break the raid setup again without loosing data? Since i might want to install xp pro it might be a issue since im gonna format and yadda yadda while installing it.

Its a raid 0 config. Just to clarify things.

Hints about how to create a custom win xp pro disc with raid drivers would be welcome as well.

Cheers!
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post #2 of 9
1/9/06 at 6:30pm
You could use a disk imaging software like Norton Ghost to create an image, then put the image back on a single disk configuration.

Search for articles on slipstream such as:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slipstream+windows+xp

I looked into this a bit myself, but it looked like too much of a pain in the butt vs. having to get a usb floppy and installing the drivers during installation.
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post #3 of 9
1/10/06 at 8:16am
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Yeah thanks. That would be loads of dvd's. The idea was to just break the array the opposite way i did when creating the array. I will look into it later on.
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post #4 of 9
1/10/06 at 10:42am
there is no way to to save data on a raid0 stripe without moving it to an alternate storage location before breaking the array.
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post #5 of 9
1/10/06 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by TekWarren
there is no way to to save data on a raid0 stripe without moving it to an alternate storage location before breaking the array.
So its only possible to keep data on a disk before adding it to a array?
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post #6 of 9
1/12/06 at 11:44am
That would be generally correct, once the data is striped over multiple drives...at least I have never heard of anyway to migrate everything to one drive and then be able to break it maintaining the data. making an image would be your best bet using another single drive.
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post #7 of 9
1/12/06 at 12:13pm
Tekwarren, that's my understanding as well - the issue with a RAID 0 array is that no one disk in the array contains a complete file, they're split over all the disks in the array which means you can't migrate to or from a RAID 0 array without external storage.

John
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post #8 of 9
1/13/06 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by Johnmcl7
Tekwarren, that's my understanding as well - the issue with a RAID 0 array is that no one disk in the array contains a complete file, they're split over all the disks in the array which means you can't migrate to or from a RAID 0 array without external storage.

John

Exactly
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post #9 of 9
1/13/06 at 3:00pm
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Wrong, you CAN migrate TO raid 0 without external storage. I did it myself on my Amilo when i first got it.
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