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  1. 08-06-2002, 05:26 PM #1
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    More silly Raid questions

    I want to set up a Raid 0 because I understand it to be faster.

    I would use 2 Western Digital 80 GB Special edition drives.

    Can I set these up so that I have 20 gigs to Windows and the rest to data storage (for reformatting purposes) or does it all need to be one big drive? Can I reformat without losing everything on both drives? Do I need to get another drive to put info on that I don't want lost when I reformat?

    (I am not worried about the array crashing)
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  2. 08-06-2002, 05:31 PM #2
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    Yep, what you need is partitions. You can set partitions up that act like a whole new drive, thus making one partition stricly for the OS, and the other for data. You can use 3rd party software (I.E. Partition Majic Pro) or FDISk
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