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Old 01-15-2008, 11:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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i want to use patishion magic to split my 2 500G HDDS in to a 100G , 400G and 2 250G.
then i want to use windows to do RAID0 to the 2 250G but i have to convert my disks to dynamic
what is dynamic?
what will it do when i convert them?
is there any advantages or disadvantiges to converting them
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How to convert the drives: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044

Dynamic vs Basic disks: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175761/EN-US/

You understand that if you RAID the drives this way it will be software RAID and not using any RAID hardware your computer might have
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Old 01-16-2008, 07:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
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ok then if i do it through my BIOS do i have 2 format or can i do it on a setup computer without loseing anythink
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