How can I reconfigure a raid 5 partition for win 2000 server?

I am running a windows 2000 server with a RAID 5 partition that has 3
hard drives striped into 2 volumes. I wish to combine both partitions
into one (effectively deleting all info on the secondary drive).
However, when I run partition software (it doesn't matter what, but
just for the heck of it, it's Partition Commander 9.01), it recognizes
2 distinct drives--drive 0 and drive 1. Why does the software recognize

2 distinct drives, when there are really 3? Perhaps this is how it
originally was striped? In that manner, how do I "re-stripe" it so that

only "1 drive" is detected?

There are two things to note:

1. We wish to keep all data from drive c:\ intact

2. How you reconfigure the RAID set? None of us has done this before.

Any technical articles relating to this would be extremely helpful.

rhecht wrote:
> I am running a windows 2000 server with a RAID 5 partition that has 3
> hard drives striped into 2 volumes. I wish to combine both partitions
> into one (effectively deleting all info on the secondary drive).
> However, when I run partition software (it doesn't matter what, but
> just for the heck of it, it's Partition Commander 9.01), it recognizes
> 2 distinct drives--drive 0 and drive 1. Why does the software
> recognize
>
> 2 distinct drives, when there are really 3? Perhaps this is how it
> originally was striped? In that manner, how do I "re-stripe" it so
> that
>
> only "1 drive" is detected?
>
> There are two things to note:
>
> 1. We wish to keep all data from drive c:\ intact
>
> 2. How you reconfigure the RAID set? None of us has done this before.
>
> Any technical articles relating to this would be extremely helpful.


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