establish raid 1 on a notebook

[Guest MMT]

I just purchased an HP HDX notebook with two 120 GB drives and Vista 64-bit

ultimate. One of the 120 GB drives is empty, and I would like to convert the

drives into a RAID 1 array. I have no idea on how to do this. Can anyone

help? Thank you.

 

-Mike

[Guest Tony Sperling]

Re: establish raid 1 on a notebook

 

First, you'll need either a motherboard with a on-board chip that can do the

Raid'ing, or an expansioncard that will fit inside the notebook - then,

three empty partitions of a combined size that is about twice the size of

your prefered working user space.

 

I have never used RAID just on partitions but on complete disks and this

requires all the disk space to be un-partitioned (new disks!) - I don't know

if you can do it starting from empty partitions, any way your hardware must

accommodate for doing this.

 

I suggest you sit down and type "raid technology" into your favorite search

engine and have Internet serve up some week-end litterature for you.

 

From your resources, you'll basically have a 60 GB RAID to work on, and I'm

not sure that is what you want. You may investigate the possibility to have

three external SATA drives and run it from that but it will probably draw a

fair bit of current to do that. Personally, I don't think I'd bother!

 

 

Tony. . .

 

 

"MMT" <MMT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I just purchased an HP HDX notebook with two 120 GB drives and Vista 64-bit

> ultimate. One of the 120 GB drives is empty, and I would like to convert

> the

> drives into a RAID 1 array. I have no idea on how to do this. Can anyone

> help? Thank you.

>

> -Mike

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: establish raid 1 on a notebook

 

Unfortunately, Microsoft client operating systems don't support RAID-1 as a

software feature. They do support hardware RAID solutions, assuming the

vendor provides a driver, but that won't help you with your laptop, which

doesn't have a RAID controller in it.

 

The best you can do is to use some sort of imaging software (such as

Acronis), to periodically image the main drive onto the second.

 

--

Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"MMT" <MMT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I just purchased an HP HDX notebook with two 120 GB drives and Vista 64-bit

> ultimate. One of the 120 GB drives is empty, and I would like to convert

> the

> drives into a RAID 1 array. I have no idea on how to do this. Can anyone

> help? Thank you.

>

> -Mike

[Guest Theo]

Re: establish raid 1 on a notebook

 

You need to do 2 things.

1. Read you owners manual to see if it tells you whether

you laptop supports a RAID configuration.

2. Contact HP Tech Support to find out what software

drivers you need for your laptop.

 

Although you may want to run Vista in a RAID configuration,

that's a hardware specific issue, not an operating system

issue. Once a RAID is properly configure and you have the

appropriate drivers, you install Vista just as you would on

a single hard drive.

 

 

MMT wrote:

> I just purchased an HP HDX notebook with two 120 GB drives and Vista 64-bit

> ultimate. One of the 120 GB drives is empty, and I would like to convert the

> drives into a RAID 1 array. I have no idea on how to do this. Can anyone

> help? Thank you.

>

> -Mike

[Guest Theo]

Re: establish raid 1 on a notebook

 

A search of the HP for 'HDX +RAID' does not come up with

anything, so your hardware may not support a RAID configuration.

 

Contact Hewlett Packard Tech support for your hardware

specific questions and issues.

 

 

MMT wrote:

> I just purchased an HP HDX notebook with two 120 GB drives and Vista 64-bit

> ultimate. One of the 120 GB drives is empty, and I would like to convert the

> drives into a RAID 1 array. I have no idea on how to do this. Can anyone

> help? Thank you.

>

> -Mike