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Installing 2 Hard Drives and make them as one
Hello all,
I purchased this dimension 5150 a month or so ago, and I noticed that something is wrong with my hard drive it only shows 40 gigs available on a 160 gig hard drive. Customer service informed me to reinstall the hard drive and reinstall windows on it. So now I am going to reinstall the 160 gig hard drive and the orginal 80 gig hard drive that came with it and install windows xp proffesional eddition. Do I have to do anything special or just hook up the 2'nd HD. I want to use this as a 1 240 gig hard drive. Do I just install the windows xp cd and click on install and that will be all complete or am i supposed to format them both and if so how do i go about the complete way of doing that to make it work as a 240 gig HD. Thanks all,
Clemmis99
- Hey all,So it is possiable to make it one hard drive. The information you provided above is that all i need or is there any other items. I have a 160 gig and an 80 gig hard drive. I want to combine both of them into 1 and make it run as a 240 gig hard drive. That is possiable correct.I just spoke with a Dell support and they informed me that i can not. If i can i would be greatful for info on how to do this. thanks all
- From user discussion, 5150 only support raid-1 which is mirror only. so it may not support raid-0 as you are trying to do. Check the BIOS set up to see if it has an option for raid-0 setup. good luck!
Message Edited by ChuckLee on 04-12-200604:11 PM
- Search "raid-0 5150" in DELL Forum, you will find the answer which is not you would like to see. 5150 is not support raid-0. I have a 3100 and I did purchase the DELL datasafe with two hard drives. the BIOS setup page allow me to configure the raid volume set. I just don't see any raid config from the setup page with your link.
shesagordie
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Posted April 12th, 2006 20:00
clemmis99 wrote:
"do i get in the bios on start up correct?"
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim5150/sm/syssetup.htm#wp1100626
Bev.
- I will leave the 80GB in the system (either configue as C: or D:). It just won't join to the raid-0 as one big virtual drive. But you can treat as a 2nd hard drive. I will put pagefile in the 2nd HD since it helps the performance. put all you MP3/pictures/movie in there also as a backup in case of 1st drive crashed and you still have all your favor collections in the working HD.
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Posted April 12th, 2006 00:00