RAID0 partitioning in WinXP64

[sram]

Don't know if this fits in this section, but here I go. I've got two velociraptors in RAID0 configuration. I only created one volume at the time so its total size ~558 GB. Now I want to partition this volume but i'm not able to!

My older acronis disk director didn't work so I upgraded to disk director 10, and it detects the drive correctly and I can repartition, but when I apply the changes and the computer reboots disk director gives an error and stops. Partition magic doesn't work of course.

I tried Parted magic and it detected my drives as two unpartitioned space each with 279 GB. It wasn't detected as a single healthy drive as I was expecting. I had another drive which is sata and it was detected correctly.

What do you suggest I do?

I can still go into the RAID configuration page and redo the volumes, but this will corrupt the data, right?

[nitrobass24]

Don't know if this fits in this section, but here I go. I've got two velociraptors in RAID0 configuration. I only created one volume at the time so its total size ~558 GB. Now I want to partition this volume but i'm not able to!

My older acronis disk director didn't work so I upgraded to disk director 10, and it detects the drive correctly and I can repartition, but when I apply the changes and the computer reboots disk director gives an error and stops. Partition magic doesn't work of course.

I tried Parted magic and it detected my drives as two unpartitioned space each with 279 GB. It wasn't detected as a single healthy drive as I was expecting. I had another drive which is sata and it was detected correctly.

What do you suggest I do?

I can still go into the RAID configuration page and redo the volumes, but this will corrupt the data, right?


Backup your stuff first before try any more repartitioning on a raid array.
Then just redo the volume create the partitions you want and restore your data.

[sram]

Backup your stuff first before try any more repartitioning on a raid array.
Then just redo the volume create the partitions you want and restore your data.

Contrary to what I read here somewhere, you make it sound like partitioning a raid0 array is dangerous to data and isn't just like partitioning a single drive. Wasn't I supposed to be able to freely repartition my raid0 using a third party software like acronis disk director. To windows, isn't my raid volume just a single drive?

[nitrobass24]

well doing any type of file system modification to a live raid0 is dangerous becuase there is no redundancy whatsoever....if your running a raid0 you should have a backup anyways. Also just to try it out I cant seem to repartition my live raid0 with Acronis either it says it does it but when i boot back up it has not made any changes.

[sram]

Also just to try it out I cant seem to repartition my live raid0 with Acronis either it says it does it but when i boot back up it has not made any changes.

That's exactly what happened to me one of the times I tried to use acronis, and I was like: what? isn't this just a simple single drive that acronis should be able to easily deal with!

Can somebody confirm that acronis disk director works with raid arrays?