I want to create a dual boot OS on my computer. I'm somewhat familiar with how RAID works but I'm wondering what I need to know to partition a RAID drive? Or can you partition these the same as any other drive? This is working with a RAID 0 drive by the way.
2007-03-19 16:44:57 · 5 answers · asked by PeaceFrog 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I want to partition the drive so I can run both XP and Vista (dual boot). However at the same time I want to keep the RAID 0 since this allows for a faster read on the drives, and thus better performance.
2007-03-19 22:56:20 · update #1
As long as the appropriate drivers for the RAID controller are loaded, the RAID array should show up to the O/S as a single volume. You can partition it just like you would a single HDD.
2007-03-23 13:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by foobarred 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok so you've spent the cash to get a raid drive. So why do you want to waste all of that performance by partitioning it.
Regardless while that you can partition a raid drive in a program like partition magic your going to need special drivers to read from the drive in both OS. Reading or writing from the drive w/o proper drivers can cause data loss.
2007-03-19 16:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by NoComment 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
which would be bearing on in case you have a pre-present os which you incredibly choose to then put in a raid config. yet besides you verify out it it is going to possibly no longer remember how many os's you have, because of the fact the raid will merely the two make regardless of archives is on there raid 0 or one million, suitable? OS isn't any distinctive than the different archives is what i'm asserting.
2016-12-18 18:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Partitioning the RAID would kind of defeat the purpose. Why don't you just un-RAID the drives?
2007-03-19 16:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by super_deformed_girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
download the swissknife , it's free and the best for handelling drives than any software around as per my exp
2007-03-19 23:11:36 · answer #5 · answered by rockerdish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋