Alexinator
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In preparation for my new HDDs arriving on Monday, I've been backing up EVERYTHING on my main SATA drive, my old 30GB Compaq drives from years ago, and everything else I'll need. Gigs upon gigs of music and videos and .iso backups and other downlaods are being burnt to DVDs. The old 30GB drives (2 of 'em) are connected via IDE, but are running out of the case and powered by a PSU from an old computer that I just shorted out to make "On", to power the drives.
Question is, it's safe, right? No need for grounding or anything, and it won't harm the compy, right? I'm not worried about the drives, selling them to a friend for 10 bucks lol. It's going to be a long night of backing up 280GB worth of data on DVDs lol.... Good thing I have this 18x DVD Burnder 4-5 minutes per disc
Shorted ATX Connector ^
On a side note, when I get my new drive on monday, it'll be set up in RAID0 with my current drive, both drives being reformatted. However, I don't have a floppy drive and was wondering if there was another way I could have RAID drivers when installing XP (after installing Vista (dual booting them))? I will need them so it doesn't screw with my RAID array.. USB would be great, but can I put them on a DVD or regular CD?
Any other comment or suggestions on dual booting XP and Vista in a RAID 0 array? Never had RAID before...
Thanks for the help!
Question is, it's safe, right? No need for grounding or anything, and it won't harm the compy, right? I'm not worried about the drives, selling them to a friend for 10 bucks lol. It's going to be a long night of backing up 280GB worth of data on DVDs lol.... Good thing I have this 18x DVD Burnder 4-5 minutes per disc
Shorted ATX Connector ^
On a side note, when I get my new drive on monday, it'll be set up in RAID0 with my current drive, both drives being reformatted. However, I don't have a floppy drive and was wondering if there was another way I could have RAID drivers when installing XP (after installing Vista (dual booting them))? I will need them so it doesn't screw with my RAID array.. USB would be great, but can I put them on a DVD or regular CD?
Any other comment or suggestions on dual booting XP and Vista in a RAID 0 array? Never had RAID before...
Thanks for the help!