Partitioning a RAID setup?

Priapus · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:09

Just a quick question guys.

Is it possible to partion a RAID setup? I have two 160Gb SATA drives in a RAID 0 config. I have Windows XP Pro installed. So, I want to now give X64 and Linux a go, just for testing, see what they're like.

I have Partion Magic 8, using that, is it possible to just make a small 10Gb partition out of the RAID setup, or will I loose data? (Again

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Dr_Evil · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:10

it should be possible yes.

rpstewart · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:41

Dr_Evil said:
it should be possible yes.

It is perfectly possible, I've currently got 3 partitions on my RAID0 array and I've used Partition Magic to adjust partitions on a previous array before. To the OS (and therefore PM) a RAID array is just another hard disk, it's the driver and controller which do the fancy stuff of spreading the actual data about.

Phil99 · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:41

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17673837&highlight=raid+partition

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Priapus · 9 Jan 2007 at 15:39

Thanks guys, I just didn't feel like loosing data again,