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June 13th, 2005 20:00
How to separate combined Hard Drives ??
I recently received my new Dimension 8400, ordered with a specification of
two 160GB SATA hard drives.
Perfect, I thought, for my hobby of video editing, as it should in principle allow me to keep the operating editing software on the C: drive and video files on the second drive.
However, Windows Explorer is only showing me one large C drive with 320GB.
Has Dell applied some sort of reverse partition to combine the drives ?
And is it possible to revert to seeing and using the drives separately without having to re-install everything ?
(I had to transfer 62GB of video, etc, over to my new computer before getting rid of the old one, and I really hope I can avoid having to back it all up)
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ejn63
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June 13th, 2005 20:00
Make sure you copy your drivers to a CD and prepare an OS CD before you start.
TomXPS
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June 13th, 2005 20:00
Unless your in a hurry, and you order the system correctly I would ask Dell to send you a new system. It's a lot of work to re-install everything and get it right. Too bad they did not setup a RAID 1 system for you then you could of broken the array and got what you wanted.
MikeyCOL
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June 13th, 2005 21:00
Thanks for the quick replies.
Is there any way I can create a partition for my video files within this "Raid 0" setup without the trauma of a full reinstall ?
I've heard of software called "Partition Magic" - but I don't know precisely what it does. Would it be of any use to me for this problem.
TomXPS
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June 13th, 2005 22:00
Not sure what there is to be gained by parting a RAID 0 array to multiple partitions. A failure on one drive will cause all data to be lost that on the RAID 0 array. All Partitions.
Not sure if Partition Magic can work on RAID 0 partition.
What you may be able to do is purchase another 320 GB drive and use Ghost to move your RAID 0 partition to the new disk and then use it for you boot drive. You could then re-format the RAID 0 array for you video editing.
I think you have to move the SATA cables around after you moved the Array to the new drive, I think the boot drive may require it to be SATA port 0.