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January 23rd, 2006 19:00
How to partition SATA Raid drives?
My XPS-600 was delivered with XP Pro and mirroring as ordered.
Anyone know how to partition this setup with Partition Magic V8.0? I think I need to break the mirror, repartition and remirror. The documentation (what there is of it) has dire warnings about breaking the mirror saying XP will be lost. I don't really want to start a reinstall from scratch if possible.
Anyone done this and if so, what are the steps in detail?
Anyone know how to partition this setup with Partition Magic V8.0? I think I need to break the mirror, repartition and remirror. The documentation (what there is of it) has dire warnings about breaking the mirror saying XP will be lost. I don't really want to start a reinstall from scratch if possible.
Anyone done this and if so, what are the steps in detail?
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TomXPS
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January 23rd, 2006 22:00
On a RAID 1 system you should be able to Break the RAID 1 volume with no problems. Did it a couple of times on my XPS Gen 2. After breaking the RAID 1 volume you should have 2 disk with exactly the same contents.
After you change your partitions, Migrate to RAID 1 using the Intel Storage Manager located in the control panel. Use SATA port 0 as the drive to migrate souce, and use port 1,2, or 3. You have to look at which SATA port the second drive is plugged into.
One word of warning, you may loose the re-install partition after changing the partition, and the partition containing a copy of the OS.
CTskydiver
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January 24th, 2006 05:00
Would the nVidia nForce 4 based chipset of the XPS 600 be using this intel software, or is there an nVidia equivalent?
TomXPS
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January 24th, 2006 11:00
Would the nVidia nForce 4 based chipset of the XPS 600 be using this intel software, or is there an nVidia equivalent?
audiopho
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January 24th, 2006 14:00