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doctrbob

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Adding a new HD?
« on: January 27, 2006, 09:00:23 PM »
Hi,
I set up a raid 10 array using 4 hd's and an LSI 4 channel pci board.  I partitioned the drives into a C,D, and E drives, with the C drive being 5 gbs.  That has turned out to be too small for what goes to the C drive ( restore points, temp files, etc.)  Program and data files go to the D and E drives.  I would like to hook a 30 gb HD up to the Motherboard through the IDE channel on the mb, and make that the C boot drive.  Is it possible to change the C boot drive to the new HD and reassign the 5 gb's to drive F, and keep all the settings and info that are on the C drive now?  Can I just hook the drive up, mirror the old C and the new C, then reboot?  Will the OS look to the onboard IDE channel before the PCI board?  I am running XP Pro.  Thanks in advance.
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