Moving an XP install to a completely different array?

[rudeboymcc]

Hi. I currently have an XP instal and want to keep it but i need a more secure setup so i bought two identical hard disks.

What I want to do is get a ghost image of my current windosw setup, take the old hard disk out, ptu the two new hard disks in and setup the raid in bios, and then just copy the ghost image over.

Will this work?

I;ve found loads of guides about adding a second hard drive but none about moving to two differnet hard disks.

One thing I've thought may be a problem, If i add the two hard disks and raid them, they're probably gonna come up as C:\, whereas at the moment windows is installed on a partition called D:\. so all the shortcuts in windows will look for D. is there any way to change the drive letter from Bios?

 

[rudeboymcc]

SOrry i didn't; give more details.
I've got an Asus K8VSE which has two raid controllers, one promise and one via, both of which are sata.

At the moment, I have the via one off and use both channels on the promise one for the two hard disks I have but they're not in raid. Surely if windows is running off the promise controller it has all *** necessary drivers? I'm thinking of making the ghost image, installing the two new hardidks as raid on the promise controller, and then transferring the ghost over to the new setup.

Will that work?

I've got Acronis to do the cloning, but oen thing I've wondered is how to do it from boot. Or does it have to be done through windows?

The problem with starting from a fresh install is it's extrememly time consuming and will take ages to set evertyhing up. THEre's webserver, all the codign porgrams I use and it all seems unnecessary if there's any chance of a 1hour solution using ghost.

 

[rudeboymcc]

ANy detials as to how you're going to do that?

At the moment I'm thinking I'll install one of the new hard disks with the current one, ghost the image over, and hten start windows on the new hard disk. and then just add the second hard disk (after i know windows starts without the raid setup) and setup the raid 1 array.

Of course you're doing raid 0 so you have to setup the array before putting anything on the disks.