Re: Hard Drives - 2xPhysical = 1xVirtual


"S.Lewis" <stew1960@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> "Tom Baldwin" <tomba_nospam_@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:30:00 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Thanks for responding, Tom. I've only installed one application so
>>>>> back-up isn't a problem. I've cut an XP reinstall CD in preparation
>>>>> for the inevitable, but how to get to separate drives? Hank, above,
>>>>> tells me to go to Disk Management. I found it via Help, but it looks
>>>>> way over my head.
>>>>>
>>>>> I booted the reinstall CD. The recovery Console just sees the combined
>>>>> C: "array". I rebooted the CD and started the XP install. I got to the
>>>>> point where he tells me:
>>>>> -: Partition 1 FAT 63MB
>>>>> C: Partition 2 NTFS 302184MB
>>>>> F: Partition 3 FAT32 2918MB
>>>>> ...and invited me to choose an install partition, or "press D to
>>>>> delete".
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I'm way-way over my head!! Any thoughts? Thanks, Tom
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I don't know. I don't have one on which to play. I'd
>>>> suspect a BIOS setting, since it is done prior to the OS load.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>Yep I'm sure its in the BIOS setting F" at startup
>>> or rather F2
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> I don't have one here to play with either. But if he's going to break the
> RAID array ( now "0" ), he's eventually going to have to go into the RAID
> bios which appears after the Dell splash screen.
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> He's going to have to delete the array, then recreate it for RAID 1 in the
> RAID bios.....
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> I've done it several times on Dimension 8400's, but not enough to do it
> from memory.
I would have though all this information that is needed should be somewhere
in the Dell documentation or help files as we say in the UK RTFM
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> ick.
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> Stew
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