Raid 1 With partitions

seeker · 01-25-08, 07:33 PM

I'm fairly familiar with setting up and managing raid, except one aspect. I have been using my SATA drives separately w/o raid, and now I want to combine them as raid 1. The question is that since my SATA 0 is now setup with x64, plus a couple of other non-os partitions, when I creat the raid, will the drive added also have these partions as well? I know that I could partition the array after it's creation, but what about before?

stncttr908 · 01-25-08, 08:05 PM

You're going to lose everything when you setup the array. Ghost the Windows drive and then add it back to the RAID.

seeker · 01-26-08, 01:04 AM

Thanks. I was thinking that since you could replace a drive in an array, without losing anything, that it would be the same when starting the array with a drive already running. But, that's not a problem, because I already have a drive image ready.

01-25-08, 07:33 PM	#1
seeker AKA seekermeister Join Date: May 2005 Location: At home Posts: 1,442	Raid 1 With partitions I'm fairly familiar with setting up and managing raid, except one aspect. I have been using my SATA drives separately w/o raid, and now I want to combine them as raid 1. The question is that since my SATA 0 is now setup with x64, plus a couple of other non-os partitions, when I creat the raid, will the drive added also have these partions as well? I know that I could partition the array after it's creation, but what about before? __________________ Rig 1: HAF 922, X2 4400+, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe , 4x1GB DDR400, 2x500GB, 1x80GB & 1x250GB + ESATCASE2 w/2x1TB HDs, LG CH10LS20 & GH22LS50, Samsung SH-S202N, Asus Xonar D2X,Creative 5.1, GTX460 SC, FusionHDTV7 Gold RT, Acer X233H, Arris TM520G, Cisco E3000, Scythe Kama, CM RS600 PS,HP 5510v,APC BX1000, XP x64, W7 & Kubuntu 9.10 Rig 2: Antec SX1040BII, A8N-SLI, 2x1GB DDR400, 8800GTS, 1x500GB & 1x1TB HDs, Liteon LH-20AIL and Pioneer DVR-111, Audigy 2 ZS, Creative T20 2.1, Antec 500SP, W7 x64 & XP MCE

01-25-08, 08:05 PM	#2
stncttr908 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: NJ, USA Posts: 4,496	Re: Raid 1 With partitions You're going to lose everything when you setup the array. Ghost the Windows drive and then add it back to the RAID. __________________ PC - \| Core i7-2600K @ stock \| Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 \| 4GB Patriot Sector 5 DDR3 \| Galaxy GTX 460 1GB @ stock \| Corsair Force 120GB SSD \| Seagate 1TB 7200RPM \| 320GB Seagate 7200.10 \| 2x Seagate 500GB USB 2.0 \| Lite-On 20x SATA DVD+RW \| Silverstone TJ-09 \| Corsair 620W PSU \| Logitech Z-5500s \| Sennheiser HD-570 headphones \| Samsung 2494LW \| Laptop - \| Dell Inspiron 1420 \| C2D T7300 (2.0GHz, 4MB cache) \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| 160GB 7200RPM HDD \| DVD +/- RW \| 14.1" WXGA+ (1440x900) \| Broadcom 802.11g \| NVIDIA 8400M GS 128MB \|

01-26-08, 01:04 AM	#3
seeker AKA seekermeister Join Date: May 2005 Location: At home Posts: 1,442	Re: Raid 1 With partitions Thanks. I was thinking that since you could replace a drive in an array, without losing anything, that it would be the same when starting the array with a drive already running. But, that's not a problem, because I already have a drive image ready. __________________ Rig 1: HAF 922, X2 4400+, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe , 4x1GB DDR400, 2x500GB, 1x80GB & 1x250GB + ESATCASE2 w/2x1TB HDs, LG CH10LS20 & GH22LS50, Samsung SH-S202N, Asus Xonar D2X,Creative 5.1, GTX460 SC, FusionHDTV7 Gold RT, Acer X233H, Arris TM520G, Cisco E3000, Scythe Kama, CM RS600 PS,HP 5510v,APC BX1000, XP x64, W7 & Kubuntu 9.10 Rig 2: Antec SX1040BII, A8N-SLI, 2x1GB DDR400, 8800GTS, 1x500GB & 1x1TB HDs, Liteon LH-20AIL and Pioneer DVR-111, Audigy 2 ZS, Creative T20 2.1, Antec 500SP, W7 x64 & XP MCE

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