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Installing a drive for RAID on old system
Hi,
I have a 420 XPS system which I have used for a couple of years. I m increasingly worried about the stability of the system and am contemplating the possibility of installing a second drive on the system as a local level of redundancy to the network based backups I have.
I was curious to know if would be possible to to install a new drive and have the system use it as a mirror RAID1 without having to reinstall the operating system??
Is that possible at all or am I going to have to reinstall VISTA rather than waiting for Windows 7?
- Benjamin
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September 29th, 2009 16:00
blawrie
Benjamin.
For 'How to Set up RAID' information, check out pages 31-40 of your XPX 420 Owners Manual HERE.
You need the PDF version.
Bev.
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September 29th, 2009 16:00
Cheers for that Bev.
So if I read that correctly - I need to install the drive and then enable RAID1 in the bios and it should build the replication from that point?
* EDIT*
Reading the manual again; it first states that in order to maintain the data I should use Intel Matrix Manager, however it then later states that creating the volume deletes all data. Am I just reading this wrong.
Also, as a side note, I currently cannot locate Intel Matrix Manager on my computer - is this something which is only enabled once I enable RAID at software level?