Win 7 setup partition and raid

[maxzuk]

Hi am going to add second drive and set to raid 0

Question is do I remove win7 setup partition first on origional drive as im going to start from scratch?

any other raid tips greatly appreciated


system specs

(Am adding identical drive)

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor

Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)

Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX)

 

[rpstewart]

When you create the array in the RAID BIOS it will wipe both disks, there's no need to prepare the disks first.