Multiple OS's on RAID 0

[Colb]

OK, I tried about a month ago to setup RAID 0 with XP, only to come up with errors and ended up installing ME in RAID 0. Well after a few days of the RAID formatt, I needed a HD for another computer so I yanked one out and have been running ME in regular setup ever since.

But I am really getting tired of ME. Everytime I start the computer now I get the msgv*** not responding error, which I never got with XP. This is an ongoing problem that I can never find a solution to.

Now, the extra HD is available and I am planning to setup the RAID again. I am planning to seperate the RAID drives into 2 patitions so I can install ME on one partition 1st, and try Xp on the other if everything turns up OK.(#1 option)

Or, while running ME in RAID 0, can I pop in XP and install it over ME with no problems? I know this would not be a fresh install, but if this works its OK with me.(#2 option)

Which option would run more smoothly?

Also is there a program that asks which OS I want to boot to if there are multiple OS's on 1 HD?

[audiyoda]

Are we talking about SCSI RAID or IDE RAID? Because if you're talking about IDE RAID my personal suggestion is to just use the two drives for dual boots and scrap the RAID idea. As I and others on this forum have said: IDE+RAID=Major problems.

With that out of the way, I've never tried to partition a RAID aray so I don't know if it can be done.

-Craig

[Colb]

Mother board has onboard RAID(IDE). So IDE RAID has mostly produced problems? I just bought an extra drive to set it up.

[audiyoda]

People want RAID for speed -- a SCSI RAID array allows for a duplexed swap of information -- while information is going from the drive it can simultaniously be written to the drive. That cannot be accomplished with IDE. And that's where the problem lies -- your OS doesn't really know the difference between IDE or SCSI -- it just knows it's a RAID array and processes information accordingly.

-Craig