Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i could
stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out useing a raid
card...both hard drives are sata...

Hi,

Click Help & Support, search on Dynamic Drives.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"B.A.M" <BAM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
> Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i could
> stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out useing a raid
> card...both hard drives are sata...

No.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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"B.A.M" wrote:

| Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
| Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i could
| stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out useing a raid
| card...both hard drives are sata...

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> No.
>
>
>> Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
>> Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i
>> could stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out
>> useing a raid card...both hard drives are sata...

XP can create and use striped (RAID 0) volumes.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...ed_volume.mspx

Although it is possible I personally wouldn't recommend it. If one drive
goes bad you lose the data on both drives. The performance increase is
negligible with software RAID.

Kerry