RAID boot - Triple partition 1

[Beth20]

Hi all,

I want to set up my High point ( soyo board)

raid for 3 partitions.

Why?

C drive for xp.

D drive for data.

E drive for ghost backup.

I think I will be using power quest for ghost.

Any tips on how to do this?

thanks

Beth

 

[Eguy]

Beth;

Sorry, but Ghost is not compatible with computers that use RAID. Secondly, having a backup partition on the same physical drive is just asking for trouble. There are too many things that could go wrong that would make all the partitions inaccesable. Backups need to be off-loaded to another physical device such as a CD or DVD, tape or another disk.

Ed


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Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[Beth20]

Thanks alot.

I see your point.

I just formatted and gave xp 15 gig partition, on a 80 gig drive

I dont see how windows can format both partitions during install.

Can I format the other partition after install?


thanks

Beth

 

[Freestone]

Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc

 

[jurgen36]

Equy: Sorry but Raid drives can be used with Ghost, Raid drives, Sata drives etc. no problems at all. However you can not use Ghost to copy to a different partition, it only works to copy to a different drive, also all partitions will be copied across. Do it all the time. SATA Raid one Linux plus one XP partition, copy them to my backup IDE drive. Regards

Jurgen

 

[Eguy]

Jurgen, Beth, et al :

This is what I based my reply on :

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl

Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[Beth20]

oKay, Im getting more confused.


What I meant by ghost was - I think I will
be using power quest drive image 7.

My Current factory set up laptop is like this:

C drive - install windows.

D drive ( partition) - factory installed
power quest lite drive image ( great for
restore)

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I want to do the same thing on my other systems.

a. some of the systems are raid boot.

b. I thought I would expand the idea to
3 partitions - "3 drives."

So I could keep data on third. "E" While I restore C from D.

Does that make sense?

thanks

Beth