RAID Disk drives

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Like to know if anyone ever tried running WIN XP with two sets of RAID?
one built-in RAID 5 from NVIDIA on mainboard and another with Adaptec

what will be potential problems? driver conflicts?, reliability?

my PC is running out of disk space and need to upgrade. If it is reliable
and problem free to run 2 sets of RAID, I will just buy additional adaptor
and hard drives - less work that way, otherwise I just have to do the slow
way:
- ghost image the boot and system partitions onto a new large drive from the
other OS on the PC
- reboot into the primary OS
- partition the remainder of the large drive and copy all other partitions
from old RAID drive
- shutdown,
- take out all old drives and in goes the new large drive
- reboot to RAID utility
- hotplug in the other two drives
- add to array and rebuild
- reboot into Xp and let rebuild process to complete. -this may take a long
time


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