How to get RAID 0 working in M1710 and E1705 Instructions.

First have 2 drives of course. main drive and a Optical 2 SATA or PATA.

my howto is for a 320 and a 250 raided giving you 250/250 =465 real gb of space.

first partition the 320 drive when installing XP PRO so that you have your main partition 70gb and the rest leave for later. also just leave the other drive for later as well.

Install windows XP pro on the 70gb partition.

get your drivers etc programs etc and all other shit that you want setup.

next hack the registry to enable Dynamic Drives on XP-PRO. Funny cuz they say that you can't get dynamic drives on notebooks. not even with XP PRO.

go into :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\

and change the following
.
in the services dir there is each reg dir and the corresponding start value.
you must change the start value to whats below.

dmadmin: 3
dmboot: 4
dmio: 0
dmload: 0
dmserver: 2

after that reboot.

then go into control panel, admin tools, computer management and then disk management.

right click on the windows drive and click on convert to dynamic.

it will pop up with a list of drives you have *2 of course cuz thats all we have* so check the other drive. and convert to dynamic. just say ok to the next few things it asks you. and reboot.

after reboot go back into disk management and right click on the second partition in the windows drive and click "new volume" and choose stripped in the list for what kind of volume. click next until format and do a quick format.

bingo you just created a raid 0 drive which will not be redundant but will be UBER QUICK.

mine has a 8ms response time.

sorry for my crappy howto. but I really wanted raid in my notebook and there was no howto's so it took alot of digging.

enjoy

works fine here.

all my raid array's in linux is software. and software IMO is better.

the point is... i did it.

how many else have?

exploration thru tinkering.

I did the benchmarks and actually I was surprised. My raid array ROCKS!

i used a program that is meant to bench RAIDS. as there aren't many that are.

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elite my skills must be young grasshopper

I researched for ever to find out how to do this on my notebook and believe me.. everyone I asked said it was impossible for me to do it on my m1710. they say you need 3 drives. 1 to boot off of and the others to raid.

I proved them wrong.

Dude, anythings posible if you can figure out how to make it work.

I dunno bout vista. it probably would work but I think you need ultamite version.

the funny thing is that Laptops in general are Told by Vista and Xp to disable Dynamic disks. that's why I needed a regedit the logical disk manager to enable them on my notebook.

then i solved the 3rd drive issue by using 2 dynamic and having a boot partition.

You can get a 2nd hdd chassis off ofebay.

just type 2nd hdd in search.

you can take what I've learnt and build on it. I bet you could still dual boot off of 1 dynamic partition but it would be tricky to get vista to recognize it cuz it's a dynamic drive... heh..


good luck bud

and it makes a killer diff for copying files and installing. anything that you need alot of hdd access. and it drops access time down

with that you can partition the 120 to match the 80 gb in exact size when re-installing XP Pro.

then delete and you know the size the make the first partition (windows ) the leftover size then you have roughly 40gb for windows and 80/80 =160 raided *striped* for a single awesome fast drive.

then do what I said convert both to dynamic then create single striped partition out of the 2 80s. piece a cake eh...

I have now 465 gb array and then a 65gb main windows partition. and I notice differences when using my array.

I just have 2x external USB drives.. 1 blu ray and a Hd dvd.

but now I can backup all my games onto my hdd and files and have tons of data to spair.

in regedit.

hklm system, current controlset then services.

find the things i said and change the start values.

use atto disk benchmark. it is designed for RAID and will give accurate results.