What is the difference between these 3 type of Windows, which one is better, which one should I use? 1. Windows XP professional 2. Windows XP media center edition 3. Windows XP Titanium edition __________________________________________________________________________________ How do you install windows to make it work on a RAID partition? Im using software RAID, not hardware RAID. I used Window's (Computer management, Disk management) to setup the RAID partition. I was trying to install windows XP, but during the hard drive setup of the installation process, windows dont seem to recognize the RAID partition. In fact, when I select that partition the comp just crashed. I tried to use Western Digital's data lifeguard tools (A popular hard drive utitity), and tried to transfer the operating system's (Windows) partition to another hard drive with the Raid partition I already setup, using the "add the drive as the new boot device" technique. Data lifeguard tools don't seem to recognize the RAID partition either =(. WHAT SHOULD I DO, SO I CAN INSTALL WINDOWS ON TO THE RAID PARTITION!!!!! I WANT TO GET FASTER DISK PERFORMANCE RUNNING WINDOWS!!!!!! What is the difference, pros and cons, between software and hardware RAID? Help and advices would be highly appreciated! THANK YOU! =)

XP is the Operating System built on and around the NT file system which is the most stable and safest of all the windows OS. Built to be more user friendly and appealling for the average non tech user because of instruction "wizards" for teaching HOW to do and use. It is the basic OS..."Home" version. "XP Professsional" is the "Home" with some office programs installed for word proccessing and accounting basics. "XP Office" is programed for high accounting and word proccessing software along with some other business applications. "XP Media Center" is developed for turning and using your computer into a Radio, TV, News Center, and Picture editing software as a family "entertainment center". "XP Titaniun" are Golf Clubs. Software Raid? From "Webopedia"....; RAID (rād) Short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers. There are number of different RAID levels: Level 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost. Level 1 -- Mirroring and Duplexing: Provides disk mirroring. Level 1 provides twice the read transaction rate of single disks and the same write transaction rate as single disks. Level 2 -- Error-Correcting Coding: Not a typical implementation and rarely used, Level 2 stripes data at the bit level rather than the block level. Level 3 -- Bit-Interleaved Parity: Provides byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. Level 3, which cannot service simultaneous multiple requests, also is rarely used. and so on... I might be wrong as I am not into RAID...but I believe that it is a hardware issue. IN THE MATTERS OF STYLE, swim with the current; in matters of principle, STAND LIKE A ROCK

Im talking about windows XP titanium, not golf clubs. LOL =D.

ther is aso raid 1 which is simply a coppy of the primary hrd drive which has full fault tollerance there is also 0 +1 which is a conbernation of both AMD Barton 3000+ 400mhz Dane-Elec DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes MSI KuDoz 7X/600 2x 80gb HDD 7200rpm ATA133 RAID 0 128mb Geforce 4 MX4200 52x Liton CD R\W 52x Samsung CD READER

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Windows XP is not a happy camper on a RAID array. You will need a motherboard or a card that supports a hardware RAID. The hard drives must be the same. Set it up as RAID 0 This gives you no redundancy, the array looks like a single drive. XP loads in about 30% of the time and write speeds to the disk are about 8 times faster. Downside. You can expect some timing problems. IE may have to have "Retry" used as it may report no connection. You may find that you get an intermittant hang up on DMI verification. Control alt delete will fix it. I have never had it hang twice in a row. Do not under any circumstances let Norton Utilities close to your computer if you are using a RAID array as Drive C (system drive). Worth it if you have large files or use a multiple-write erase utility.