RE: RAID, partitioning and imaging

Bob,

You will need to purchase a partitioning utility to partition the drive. Not
hard at all.

"Bob S" wrote:

This isn't quite a WinXP question, so if there's a better
place to ask, please let me know.

My basic question is whether I can partition a hard drive
that's in a Raid level 1 configuration. I want to do so for
the purpose of putting the system and apps on one partition
and my data on another partition, so that I can image just
the system/apps partition for the purpose of back-up.

The computer is a Dell XPS 720 with two 500 G hard drives in
a RAID level 1 configuration. I don't know anything about
RAID other than what's in the owner's manual, which isn't
much. I asked Dell tech support whether I could partition
the hard drive in such a set-up, and got contradictory
answers: one stated flat out that I shouldn't do it; the
other said it was ok.

So is it ok or not? Are there any special considerations?

Thanks.
--

Bob S.

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