Reverting from Windows 7 to Windows XP Pro (With SPANNED HARD DISKS)...

[DemonTraitor]

Hi

I have a Windows 7 (EVALUATION) PC, which is going to expire and wish to revert back to XP Pro for the time being...

I have configured 2 x 500gb Hard Disks in COMPUTER MANAGEMENT as SPANNED to make 1 x 1TB Disk, what will happen to this SPANNING when I revert to XP Pro?

Will I lose the SPANNED CONFIGURATION?
Can I just RE-SPAN in XP and everything will be ok?
Will I have to BACKUP all the DATA?

What to do.....???

Regards

Demon

 

[DemonTraitor]

I connected the hard disks to my own PC, and the BIOS recognized just the one HD, and the OS (W7 Pro) did show any disks at all.

Looks like I may need to get a single 1TB HD to move stuff to.

No Backups... the Server holds all my DVD collection, but took a long time to rip, will have to do it all again as last resort