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Advice on setting up a RAID System please

I have an XP2 machine with IDE drives and plan to add SATA drives for backup security.

Is it better to boot from the SATA drives and backup to the IDE's or vice versa?

If booting from the SATA's do I have to install Windows XP first to load the SATA drivers from floppy or is there any way round this?

I am new to RAID setup so any general tips would be welcome.

Cheers

kennygee
Jun 19 '07 #1
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its your choice on which harddrive u want your OS to boot from, but SATA is faster than IDE.

there should be instructions that came with the SATA to tell u, but usually its before u install XP (if u install XP onto it).
Jun 19 '07 #2

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