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I have an Asus A7N8X 2.0 mainboard with a currently unused Sil 3112A SATA
controller that supports raid 0 and raid 1. I currently use 1- 80GB and 1-
120GB hard discs on the IDE ports.

My plan is to install 2- 74 GB Raptors on the SATA controllers in a raid 0
array then remove the 80GB hard disc and keep the 120GB on an IDE channel.
The Raptors should arrive from Newegg Monday.

I would like to first image the current C drive to a external hard disc,
remove the C drive, install the raid array and then image the array from the
external hard disc.

I would imagine I need to first boot with the XP CD and install the raid
drivers via floppy before attempting the image transfer. Alternatively I
have Norton ghost and could use that to clone C to the raid array. I also
have Drive Image 2002, which I've heard is one of the few apps that works
reliably with a SATA controller.

This is my first attempt at imaging a SATA drive, raid or not so any
comments, suggestions, flames or prayers are welcome. If all else fails,
I'll just do a clean install on the array. I'm hoping to do the image or
clone because I know I'll be doing a clean install around the first of the
year when I upgrade to an AMD 64 mainboard and CPU.

TIA

I used Acronis True Image 7.0 to clone the raid array from my C drive and it
went off very easily. Very nice performance from these drives.



"Michael-NC" <> wrote in message
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> I have an Asus A7N8X 2.0 mainboard with a currently unused Sil 3112A SATA
> controller that supports raid 0 and raid 1. I currently use 1- 80GB and 1-
> 120GB hard discs on the IDE ports.
>
> My plan is to install 2- 74 GB Raptors on the SATA controllers in a raid 0
> array then remove the 80GB hard disc and keep the 120GB on an IDE channel.
> The Raptors should arrive from Newegg Monday.
>
> I would like to first image the current C drive to a external hard disc,
> remove the C drive, install the raid array and then image the array from
the
> external hard disc.
>
> I would imagine I need to first boot with the XP CD and install the raid
> drivers via floppy before attempting the image transfer. Alternatively I
> have Norton ghost and could use that to clone C to the raid array. I also
> have Drive Image 2002, which I've heard is one of the few apps that works
> reliably with a SATA controller.
>
> This is my first attempt at imaging a SATA drive, raid or not so any
> comments, suggestions, flames or prayers are welcome. If all else fails,
> I'll just do a clean install on the array. I'm hoping to do the image or
> clone because I know I'll be doing a clean install around the first of the
> year when I upgrade to an AMD 64 mainboard and CPU.
>
> TIA
>