Raid 1 setup help

[HurtMeP1nty007]

Here is my situation. I have a dell optiplex 645 with 2x200gig hd's. It currently has windows xp pro loaded on it. The first drive has the operating system and all other files on it. The second drive is blank with no data on it. What is that best way to go about setting up the second drive for redundancy aka Raid 1? Not really trying to format the 1st drive but if that is the only way....

any info would be greatly appreciated

 

[axan]

not familiar with that dell model, does it have onboard raid? or do you have a seprate raid controller for it? In any case creating a raid array will destroy all your data so you would need to back it up first then restore once the array is created.