2 HDs in RAID 1 with 2 partitions ?

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Published on 2010-06-13T20:29:44Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 20:33 UTC
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Hi,

i am not very familiar with raid partitons and am not even sure if this is the right place to ask about it, but i hope that if it is not that some one can point me on the right direction.

This is my situation, i have 2 500 GB hds and a 3ware pci-e hardware for raid and i wanted to make a RAID 1 but i dont know if i can make more then one partition for it, for instance:

MAIN HD: os partition: 100GB data partition: rest of left size

and make the RAID 1 either work on all the HD or just on the data partition of it.

that is on windows xp sp3 and the 3ware allows bootable raid.

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