software raid, anything i should do before formatting?

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rxteenager

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Hey guys so on my last build I got lazy and just use win 7 to create two raid 1 partitions. One is 640gb and the other 1tb. I'm going to format my system soon and I was wondering if there's anything I need to do before the format so I don't loose any data. I guess my other question is now that I have these two hdd's full of data, would creating a hardware raid setup mess everything up?
 
Win7 does not support software RAID. It does however support FlexRAID, so just use your controller to create the container and then run Win7 so it will detect it properly. Once this is done, you can format the container with NTFS.

If both drives are full of data, you'll be destroying one or the other with RAID1, regardless of whether it is hardware/software RAID. RAID1 just duplicates what is on one drive to mirror onto the other.

If you can do hardware RAID, I'd recommend that since FlexRAID tends to be bad.
 
Well i thought that's what it was called, since i have seen other's use that term. Yes I know I should have just done it right the first time but I got lazy the first time. Sorry guys won't happen again i promise.
 
haha, it's no biggy, it's your data. ;)

If you have any way to the transfer the data first, then you should be good.
 
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