Convert single disk to raid 0?

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Kanaric

Limp Gawd
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Usually when I want to do raid 0 i simply reformat, however this time I do not want to have to do this. Can I take a single drive and use a MB raid (on asus workstation mb) so that it takes the data on the one drive and stripes it across the two drives rather than reformatting? This would also be for a boot drive with Windows 7.
 
You'll need to reformat.

Use Acronis or Clonezilla to image your drive first, format/create the array and then restore the image on the array.
 
If you have windows 7 it can create a disk image for you, you do not need a 3rd party tool.

1. Create a disk image and store it on another drive (hopefully you have a large enough external drive or something)

2. reconfigure your drives

3. pop in the windows 7 cd, reboot, and restore the disk image from the installer
 
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