Re: Moving program files off RAID array and de-RAIDING
- From: Rob Morley <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:21:22 +0100
In article <lhg4m117tjuaj2007mpd2s4h7hrkeeotkd@xxxxxxx>,
Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> A couple of years ago I built my daughter a dual processor PC with a
> RAID 0 array for use on her video production course.
> Now she's moved on to Graphic and Web design, so she brought her old
> computer home and swapped it for the AMD 64 bit machine I built last
> month.
>
> I want to de-RAID the ex-video editing machine and return the drives
> to a more fail-safe configuration. I already had/have system C:\ on a
> standard IDE HD but I originally put the program files folder on the
> RAID array to aid in speed of access.
>
> What I want to do now is move the program files folder to a partition
> on the standard drive so that I can reformat the RAID array and
> separate the drives.
>
> Can I just make a copy of the registry and do a search and replace to
> re-define all the old references to"G:\Programs" to the newer location
> "D:\Programs" then move the Programs folder to D:\ and overwrite the
> older registry with the new one?
> Or, is it more complicated than that?
>
I've done that successfully in the past. You don't so much make a copy
of the registry as export parts of it to a text file, modify it and
import it again. I'd be more inclined to arrange it so that the
programs end up back on the G: drive by creating extra partitions or
reassigning drive letters.
.
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