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    Creating a Partition in Raid 5 Array

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Chris McCarthy, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. Chris McCarthy

    Chris McCarthy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I will soon get my 9262 with a Raid 5 of 3x320bg HDD.
    I asked them to partition the series into a 150gb C drive with the OS, and leave the rest for a D Data Drive.

    Assuming they did not do this and I end up with a C drive with the complete array on it (and the OS), how do I repartition the drive?
    I have heard of using software to move the partition, but I would like the procedure from initialization of HDD through building the array to partition, format, and placement of the OS.

    Has anyone done this with the 9262 and how did you do it?

    Also, I tend to reformat the OS drive and reinstall the OS every 6 months to clean the crap out of it. Assuming this is as necessary with Vista as it has been with every Microsoft OS in the past, is there a problem with doing this within a Raid 5 Array? I will want to leave the D drive alone while redoing the C drive (all within the Raid 5).

    Chris.
     
    Chris McCarthy, Jun 24, 2008
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    psycroptik Notebook Consultant

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    My 9262 comes (back) today.
    I hope to make a complete how-to for it this weekend.
     
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  3. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    Just reformat the drive using the Vista cd. It will let you set up the primary OS HD and allocate as much space you want to it and then create the other drives with however space yo want on it.
     
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  4. psycroptik

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    Yea I "heard" that Vista has a decent enough partition editor.
    Its still Microsoft and I still don't trust it ;)
     
    psycroptik, Jun 24, 2008
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    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    Well the Vista Partition Program itself is not that good. What i was suggesting was just doing a good clean reformat, where you set up the partitions yourself using the Vista CD, sort of like installing it for the first time again. Takes about 30 minutes, about the same time it would take to download a partition manager, burn it reboot and retry.
     
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  6. Chris McCarthy

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    So how do I do this? Assuming I have one C drive for 600+gB. How do I reformat it to be 150gB? Do I have to reinitialize it? Won't that ruin the Raid 5?
     
    Chris McCarthy, Jun 24, 2008
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    If it is one partition and you want to start over then you would.
    Go into the RAID creation screen ( Its ctrl+i I think..) at bios.

    Drop the old raid 5.
    Recreate the raid 5.
    Put in the Vista cd/partition how you want/format/install.
     
    psycroptik, Jun 24, 2008
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  8. theriko

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    You shouldn't need to r-initialise the raid, just choose partition sizes and reformat the drive at the beginning of the vista install process
     
    theriko, Jun 24, 2008
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