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Vista Boot Camp Software Raid

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.macstiled

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Sep 26, 2007
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Hello.

I'd like to set up a separate 3-drive striped software Raid0 solution in Vista to increase write performance for FRAPS capturing, but need guidance on how to proceed, please.

Mac Pro 8-core 2.8GHz "Early 2008" 14GB RAM WD 640GB x4

Drive1 - Mac OS 10.5.2 / Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit (Boot Camp 2.1)

Drive2 - Striped Raid0 1/3
Drive3 - Striped Raid0 2/3
Drive4 - Striped Raid0 3/3

The 3 latter drives is what I'm trying to configure, but don't know how to do so for my Vista partition. Is this even possible? If so, does Vista have this built-in capability, or would I need to download a third-party software raid utility? Please advise. Thank you.
 
After finally figuring it out, and about to create the striped drive, Logical Disk Manager had this to say:

"The dynamic disks are not supported by this operating system."

At least now I know why it was so hard to find information anywhere concerning this. Anyway, fyi.
 
louden said:
Get a copy of Windows Server 2008 - it should work fine.
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Louden,

So you are saying that if I install Windows Server 2008 in bootcamp, that I can create software raid data partiitons? I wish that bootcamp supported hardware or software raid and allowed for the System/Active partition to exist on a raid array.
 
Lucky for you that Vista (Or Server 2008) doesn't require a separate driver disk for RAID. I would assume you already have the disks in soft RAID under OSX? If so, that's your problem. You need hard RAID, which requires a RAID card, which doesn't let you bootcamp :(

catch 22 ;d
 
m1stake said:
Lucky for you that Vista (Or Server 2008) doesn't require a separate driver disk for RAID. I would assume you already have the disks in soft RAID under OSX? If so, that's your problem. You need hard RAID, which requires a RAID card, which doesn't let you bootcamp :(

catch 22 ;d
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Lets suppose that I had additional disks in my Mac Pro that are not configured in OSX at all. Is there any conceivable way to setup soft/hard raid and build a bootcamp partition on the array?
 
I would assume so. You would mess up your OSX soft RAID if you tried putting ANOTHER RAID on top of it, but if the hard drives are different I would guess that you could. Unfortunately I've never used Bootcamp, but from what I understand you can format a second hard disk entirely for Windows, so I don't see why you couldn't set up a soft RAID array in that.
 
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