CitizenCain
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Hey all.
I broke down and bought myself a nice external drive bay and 10 drives to put in it.
I'm running XP Pro x64, and want to do a software RAID solution (since the provided controller is cheap and can only handle up to 5 drives in one RAID set). I'd heard that Windows XP had this functionality, so I thought it would be no problem. Even found a nice step by step guide to do it.
(Using WindowsXP to Make RAID 5 Happen | Tom's Hardware)
Of course, I go to actually do it... and that's when I remember that Windows XP x64 is actually based on the Server 2k3 platform, not the XP platform, meaning those steps don't work. D'oh. (For starters, the hex lines they reference in the guide don't all exist...)
Does anyone know how to do this, either through XP x64 with free software (and ideally nothing that involves a Linux install)... or have links to a guide (etc) that can walk me through it?
I broke down and bought myself a nice external drive bay and 10 drives to put in it.
I'm running XP Pro x64, and want to do a software RAID solution (since the provided controller is cheap and can only handle up to 5 drives in one RAID set). I'd heard that Windows XP had this functionality, so I thought it would be no problem. Even found a nice step by step guide to do it.
(Using WindowsXP to Make RAID 5 Happen | Tom's Hardware)
Of course, I go to actually do it... and that's when I remember that Windows XP x64 is actually based on the Server 2k3 platform, not the XP platform, meaning those steps don't work. D'oh. (For starters, the hex lines they reference in the guide don't all exist...)
Does anyone know how to do this, either through XP x64 with free software (and ideally nothing that involves a Linux install)... or have links to a guide (etc) that can walk me through it?