"Andy C.(never #)" <acamfield@revenue.org> wrote in message
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> On Dec 28, 8:34 am, "Ron O'Brien" <castc...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I am about to install Vista Home Premium on my PC which has a 160g PATA
>> hard
>> drive as the C:/ drive (which I want to continue to be the C: drive with
>> Windows on). It also has two 30g SATA drives with RAID 1 configuration
>> for
>> back-ups.
>>
>> I am told that if I wipe my C drive when I go to install Vista, Vista
>> will
>> try to install on the SATA drives and may not let me install on th PATA
>> (current C) drive. - is that true?
>>
>> Also, I am told that Vista will not recognise the RAID1 set up on my SATA
>> drives - so how will I get Vista to access the data on that drive?
>>
>> Any help appreciated
>>
>> Ron
>
> Hey, Ron. Not sure I understand what you are trying to do here... If I
> remember correctly, RAID 1 has to do with pairs of drives setup in a
> mirroring configuration. That means everything written to the first
> drive gets written to the second drive. It is the most reliable form
> of backup, but in years past it was a little finicky in that the drive
> pairs had to be pretty much identical right down to the model number
> or it would not work. Don't think it is that bad anymore, but pretty
> sure trying to mirror a 160GB drive onto a 30GB drive is not a good
> idea.
>
> Hope this helps.
>

The mirror is one of the 30Gb pair mirrored on the other 30Gb so that if one
disk fails all your data is mirrored on the other drive.