At 01:23 PM 4/19/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
Follow up question. Windows shows the RAIDed drives as four
separate drives, each the size of the physical drive. Acronis shows
them as five separate Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID 0 - I've never used
RAID 0 - is it reasonable to assume that the drives are striped, but
that there is a C: drive that has the Windows and programs on it,
and then a D, E, and F that have data? If this is the case, and all
I want to do is reformat the drive holding Windows and reinstall
Windows, then I assume I just have to figure out which of the drives
holds Windows and make a backup of that drive (in case there is data
on it.) Am I right?
You should find out all you need to know by going to the Promise
Properties in the DM. My Windows Explorer shows striped drives as one
drive & I have to look at the SIL properties to tell that they are 2
separate drives. If is not the case for you then I'd say the Promise
Raid Arrays were never setup especially since you state the 4
separate drives that shows up in Windows [Explorer or DM] is the same
physical size as the drives. I also have a NVraid that I've never
setup an array on yet have individual SATA drives off of it which
sounds to me like what you have except maybe your drives are PATA
which shouldn't make any difference.
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