I'm using 2 SATA HDDs as non-raid now, am considering adding the 3rd HDD (Ihave a 3rd identical HDD) and going to RAID 5 config. 1, can I do that in my pre-BIOS or BIOS setup? 2, will it use my opsys disc and its partitions to spread data/settings/partitions over the 3 drives? 3, can I do this without re-installing WinXP - I have the SATA RAID drivers on a floppy... Thanks in advance, Noel

Does your motherboard support Raid or you are going to buy a seperate Raid controller?

Hi torrentlink, I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo. It supports SATA, SATA RAID and IDE RAID. I had a RAID1 config earlier but shut it down and now run those 2 SATA drives like IDEs. I had to use a floppy with the drivers on it while installing WinXP before, but now have my programs established and don't want to have to re-install the OS, just migrate to SATA RAID, but don't know how to get the drivers recognized by WinXP. I think I can select F4 on boot and get to the RAID menu, but with no drivers, not sure where to go... I don't think it will set up and I don't want to remove my SATA HDDs from the non RAID connectors to move them to SATA RAID connectors without some assurances that it will accept them. Does that make sense? Thanks, Noel