Stripe/Span/Simple disk management in Win XP for Raid 5 setup?

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I have created 1 array with 7x750GB's and 1x750Gb hot spare.

then i created 2X 2TB Raid5 logical disks in the raid config wizard and in Win xp i have created 2 "simple" volumes F: and G: based on the logical disks, but my initial plan was to create 1 large volume but I'm not sure if using the spanned or stripe option in win xp disk management will destroy the parity "security" in raid 5 or will it still work if using the striped/spanned option? (which one is the correct for this?)

I haven't been able to create a logical drive larger than 2 TB so that's my problem.
 
Striping it will cause the whole array to go down if one partition crashes. Dont want this. Spanning it will essentially create a JBOD out of the two logical arrays. Definitely go with spanning it.
 
doesn't windowsXP support GUID partition tables, and with that logical disks > 2TiB?
 
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