Add a Drive to A RAID Array without losing data?

[Bl00dFox]

Hi all

I am currently using a 400GB Western Digital SATA II Hard Drive which is packed with data. Therefore, I plan to adda nto RAID-0, to add more space and have it run a little faster. Is there a way to add another drive and RAID them without losing any data? I am asking this question because I unfortunately dont have any other hard drive to temporarily copy the data to... Thanks

 

[PC eye]

No waaaaaaay! Once you set up an array one drive mirrors another and is even more vulnerable to data loss if something happens on one drive. You are better off simply adding a new drive as an additional storage device with a separate logical drive letter assigned to it.

Here I currently have Vista on an ide drive with XP on the first of two WD 500gb sata models and hope to adding a new WD GP series 1terabyte drive in as strictly a storage device and see Vista go onto the second sata. That will see the 250gb ide left open for use in an older case for a beater, adding Linux, or simply tossed on a shelf as a spare drive onhand.