Hey guys, I have 2 hard disks, a 120 gb and a 160gb. My simple plan is as follows: To partition the 120 to 2 60 gig dynamic disks. Take those 2 60 gig dynamic disks and stripe them together for a 120 gig disk. Then I would install windows/games on that disk and use the 160 for bulk storage. Problem is I have windows installed on the 120 gig right now. I plan on formatting and everything but have no idea how to go about partitioning/striping outside of windows. I can't do it in windows because its a boot disk......hmm this might sound way more confusing than I originally intended so if I can clarify anything else please let me know. As always I appreicate any replys on this thread thanks! -will

I don't think you can stripe (RAID 0) two partitions on the same disk. In fact, I think you can only stripe physical hard drives. Even if you could, striping two partions on the same disk would actually decrease your performance. Striping works by sending half the data to one channel and half to another. If you stripe two disks on on the same channel (or the same disk) then your performance would decrease by the overhead of the striping process. And since your disks are two differnt sizes, you would lose 40GB if you were to stripe them together.

well Im actually planning on striping the 120 with the 160 and using the left over 40 gigs for a storage drive. But I dont know how I can install windows on the striped drives since the striping is going to be done w/ software and not hardware.

I've never used software striping so I don't know how that would work. Remember though, you willgain hard disk performace but you will take a hit on your processor performance since it will be doing all the work. Good luck.