Dell XPS 8300 with Raid 0 and encryption (TrueCrypt)??

If you changed to RAID 1, this may be one option (a guess) since the RAID 1 mirrors each drive, where RAID 0 the data is spread across both drives.  

Actually, I've abandoned RAID altogether and have one drive for the OS.  I regularly use Acronis True Image to back up the entire hard drive to a separate hard drive so if I had a corruption or failure I would lose very little (just back to the last backup).

Actually, you should be contacting Truecrypt to see if it's compatible or what has to be done.  It's not a Dell hardware problem (this forum section).

If encryption is a high priority, you should have investigated further before purchasing and bought a model that has this or has provisions to add it.  Generally, this is not an issue in consumer/home systems.  Business systems are more apt to have this or have the provisions to add it.

I did not want to have a RAID 0 config... Best would have been no RAID, but was told you have to reinstall everything if you get rid of RAID0. Is that true as I would like to have an OD disk and a data disk too?

Cheers

JB

Since data is spread out over both drives, you would have to reinstall everything.  If you would have had a RAID 1 you could remove the RAID and then use either drive as the boot drive since both drives are identical.

Despite what Dell told me, it was very easy to remove RAID 0 and restore everything.  Just use Dell Data Safe Local to make recovery discs (I assume an image); remove the raid (Control-I on boot) and then restore the image to one of the discs.  Everything was there including os, the oem partition, the recovery partition, the various dell softwares.

It drives me crazy that you can't get accurate information from Dell.  I was told that if I removed RAID I'd lose all my Dell software and configuration and could only re-install Win7 from disc, and then download some of the Dell apps.  One phone support tech said he could do it but then couldn't remove the RAID (didn't know about Control-I, unbelievably), the second didn't have a clue and asked his superiors who said I would definitely lose all my configuration and partitions.  I said OK, let's do that then, and he said it would need to be done on-site.  What?!  So tech comes out to my house at great cost to Dell, says I'll lose everything except re-installed Windows.  I ask him to try the Dell REcovery Disks first, which we do, and they work perfectly - I have two separate non-raided disks with exact copy of original config on one of them.

It is Dell's great weakness that their support is so appalling.  They could have saved one phone call and one site visit if their systems allowed a first-line support person to know the basics of removing raid on a current model.  It should be essential info since it was compulsory to have RAID 0 when I bought, and this is a silly requirement on a machine with no space for extra drives.  The net is full of requests by people to remove their RAID 0; it should be Dell's easiest answered question.

jrsubs

when you did (control-I) did you reset disks to non-raid?

I also have no use for this raid business I got this to run music production software and i need my hard drives separate to run program files on one virtual instruments off the other.

Yes, or at least the Dell tech did.  Then we reloaded the backup.