Reinstall windoze fast & dirty

mayagrafix · Mar 14, 2004

Windows broke down on my box with a RAID array. I dont look forward to reformating 200 gigs and reinstalling. So I added another small HD and installed windows there; the RAID HD setup shows up fine and is not the problem.

Can I just copy the newly installed windoze from the small HD to the RAID HD?

Ultimately I will take the other small HD off and just leave the RAID HD.

fadirocks · Apr 7, 2004

you can but i'm not your man for ghosting stuff but if you use partion magic (and I think partiton manager works too) you can create new lets say 10GB partition without losing your files! seriously it can do it and then you can install windows there again if you want to

cheers

mayagrafix · Apr 7, 2004

Thanks fadirocks. I decided to leave the smaller HD installed with the OS all by itself and left all my apps and docs on the RAID 0 array. Believe it or not. I have seen a solid performance increase with this set up!

fadirocks · Apr 8, 2004

Cool

Hyperspeed · Apr 29, 2004

If you are sure that your drives don't have any bad sectors you can go to manage frm my computer and select the two drives that are in raid and formate using quick but you can also select 16k stipe size instead of 4 thay you would get using the cd. Now you remove the sml drive and set up the raid as primary and reboot using the cd but when it asks you to format just select change nothing use current settings.

mayagrafix · Apr 29, 2004

Okay... but whats the advantage of 16k stripe over 4k stripe? does this mean that the sectors on the drive hold more info? (16k vs 4k)

nahmus · Apr 29, 2004

what kind of raid? If it was a mirror can't you just reverse sync the mirror? Assuming that a hardware error goofed your windows. If its a software error that the same bad data would be there.

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