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  1. Atomicboy22

    Raid 0 w/ ide 1 (secondary ide) slave not right

    Ok, I found the problem, still need an answer before I mess things up with my own ideas. It appears when the 40G ide drive is set to auto in the bios, the boot sequence then removes the raid set up, in place for this new hard drive, however there is no option to place the raid into the boot...
  2. Atomicboy22

    Raid 0 w/ ide 1 (secondary ide) slave not right

    I have a thread a little bit down, however I thought I would start a new one as this is a seperate problem. I have configured 2 160G drives in raid 0. Everything good. I tried to connect another 40G drive to ide1 (secondary, the primary ide, was inseted into the raid 0 ide slot, and I just...
  3. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    I did not find that key... HAve you heard of he cipher app in xp? Someone told me to try that, will that work? I couldn't figure out the right combinations of switches to decrypt the files... let me know what you think...
  4. Atomicboy22

    recovering encrypted folder

    That's my point though, is that ok to do? It's very important that I don't lose the array, as I have just backed up everything onto it, and that is now the only place where I have that info. I just need to know if I disconnect the rtaid 0 array, and hook up the old drive as primary, since the...
  5. Atomicboy22

    recovering encrypted folder

    I recently removed my master hdd, and put in 2 new ones with a raid 0 set up. I hooked the old drive up to another computer, where it will be from now on, and tried transferring over the files I had there that I wanted to keep to the new drive (via home network), however I realized that one of...
  6. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Hey, one more question. I forgot about some encrypted thing sI had on the original drive, and some things in "my documents" folder. I tried slaving this drive to my server to get the stuff off, but as I suspected it is saying access denied. Is there anyway to copy this info off this...
  7. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Well les and syar, everything seems to be good, set up norton and sygate this morning, so I just have to install all the little crap now, but she's purring like a kitten now :) as tektippy mentioned, would it be benifitial for me to have the swap on another drive outside the array? I'm...
  8. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    LOL thanks, but too late :P I tried that slipstreamed disk 3 times, with the same results each time, then I tried my normal xp pro disk, no sp1, figuring my updated third party raid driver would therefore have the latest driver to recognize the drives and the arrays, and it appears I was right...
  9. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Ok, set up everything ok, installed xp using my slipstreamed version w/sp1. Got into xp, when I try to go into device manager it gives an error saying mmcndmgr.dll is currupt is path is not in system root. Also, when I tried to do the updates, I d/l them all, then it x'd out all of them in the...
  10. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Thanks guys, I think you've both built quite an informative riad 0 manual here, hope it helps others also. I will post back after I attempt this tonight, and let you know what happened. Thanks again :)
  11. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Thanks guys, from what I read on those sites and a couple others, since my limit for block size is 64k, i think either 32k or 64k will benifit me the most, since my system is mainly for games, and second video, though I have no idea what my avg file size would be. I guess window files shouldn't...
  12. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    one other question before I screw it all up, what block size should I use for my array? I read the max, 64k is the best for performance in a riad 0, where the min 4k is the best for servers in a raid 1, is the right? For what I want it for should I do 64k or lower?
  13. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    LOL I just came across slipstreaming, and I was going to post here to ask either of you two if you knew if this would work. So this should work for my twin 160G in a riad 0 array, installing xp like this with sp1 installed? I hope this is the last obsticle I will have to adress, I really don't...
  14. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    ok, but how do I get around the installation from a version of xp pro that does not have sp1 integrated?
  15. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    How about for the install though syar? It will only format this array to 137G won't it? The version of xp pro I have does not have sp1 integrated... How will I get around this?
  16. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Oh crap, I forgot about that too, it will only recognize 137G or something won't it... I don't have a sp1 install disk. IS this going to create a problem? Do I simply have to do the updates and it will be recognized then? The largest drive I've ever worked with is my current 120G, so I've...
  17. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    LOL I just rear my thread, sorry I don't know why mentally I type "driver" when I want to type "drive", I do it all the time. Also, just to get this right, when setting this up, I set up the array, then does the format occur there, or where it usually does in the xp...
  18. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Hello. You have been very helpfull les. I do intend to use this for speed, mostly for games, and video editing, so that is why raid 0 is for me. I was concerned about the stability of raid 0 though, but it has been brought up that this is as stable as one drive would be anyway, correct? I...
  19. Atomicboy22

    Should I use raid 0? What are the cons?

    Hello. I just bought 2 160G WD hdd's on sale. I'm going to replace my current 120G with them, and I bought 2 in hopes of trying out raid 0. I want as much performance as possible I'm just trying to find out more info on how secure this array actually is though. In other words, I don't wnat...

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