Re: Can you setup RAID 1 with a regular m/b using XP?
From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/14/04
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 08:46:27 -0500
Hi,
XP cannot create mirrored volumes for itself, it only allows for striping
(raid 0). You can use disk manager to set it up on other networked systems
(ironic, I know), but for what you want you will need a hardware solution.
-- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby! http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org "stevensly" <stevensly@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:i7T4c.38031$1gU1.8624@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... > Hi all, > I've got a pc setup as an file server. This pc hosts files for other > systems to access. > The drive has 2 identical 120G ide drives (same channel). > For redundancy purposes, I would like to setup the 2nd drive to mirror the > first. > The problem is, the m/b does not support raid. Without hardware > modifications, can XP create a raid 1 setup? I've read about xp being able > to do raid 0, but raid 1....? > If xp is not capable, are there any recommended applications to accomplish > this? > > Tia! > >
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