Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
"Bryan J. Smith" b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
??? I thought XP Pro can use LDM and striping/mirroring, just like Windows 2000 Pro ???
Just FYI, you have to use a Logical Disk Manager (LDM) Disk Label** (aka "Dynamic Disk") to use the software RAID features of Windows 2000 Pro and XP Pro (not sure about XP Home, what it offers).
On 2000 Pro and XP Home/Pro, the option is there, but either grayed out or there's popup screen informing you that it works only on Server and up (don't remember anymore). You need to have at least Server version of Windows in order to use it. Unless of course you managed to hack something in the registry to enable it (in which case you violated licencing agreement, and sure, I'd like to know how you did it ;-).
If you can read german - there is a "raidpatch" (short) documentation and zipfile for W2K SP4 and WXP SP2 at http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/05/03/090/ . The warning (at http://www.heise.de/ct/05/14/166/default.shtml) is: if a Microsoft patch affects the patched files then you might loose the functionality again - and maybe your data, too. So you should make an image of your system partition before you apply a MS patch.
hope this helps,
Kay
Currently, the only software RAID option for 2000 Pro and XP Home/Pro are those fake RAID controllers with their specialized drivers (I'm not aware of any 3rd party general purpuse software RAID drivers for Windows).
Of course, all this holds only if Microsoft hasn't decided to unlock the feature in one of the service packs (which I doubt).