I have a PC I only use for school music projects. Before I bought it it was reccomended to have 2 hard drives, 1 for the assorted mix / master programs and 1 to use for samples and assorted patches.
The PC I have has the 2 hard drives but there are in some kind of raid set up where they mirror each other. Hard drive A has all of its contents copied to hard drive B nightly. Every file, OS ect...
How do I change this. What I want to do it have hard drive A as my OS program HD and B to be my sample patches drive. I could just remove the software ( a norton program ) that does the mirroring, but I think changes need to be made in the BIOS to make everything correct.
This one if past my skill level so if anyone one could help I would welcome it.
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are you showing these as 2 separate hard drives or as one single "dynamic drive, I ask because 2 hdd's showing as one is a raid array either 0 or 1 or 0+1 in the case of 4hdd's.
If it is showing as 2, someone has installed a backup scheduler were the pc backs up drive C to D when ever it reaches (p.m. or when power is turned off as an example).
If it is only showing one drive then you have a raid array and would have to back up that raid array before separation, or when you do undo the raid array it will format the 2 drives to make them 2 singles and you will lose all information.
goto my computer left click and look at how many hdd's are shown, if you have a c,d and perhaps f (am guessing most people use usb memory sticks now) ensure that each drive is separately displayed. if for instance you have 2 hdd's plus the memory stick and only see 2 hdd's than you hav a raid array.
Backing up a raid array in case it is needed: it is actually fairly straight forward, make an ISO image of the current array and e-mail it to yourself, back it up to cd or use a memory stick or firewire drive. remove the raid array through bios reboot the pc and install the iso image to one of the disks after the windows install. This will reinstall all of the previous programs etc and make them available
If it is showing as 2, someone has installed a backup scheduler were the pc backs up drive C to D when ever it reaches (p.m. or when power is turned off as an example).
If it is only showing one drive then you have a raid array and would have to back up that raid array before separation, or when you do undo the raid array it will format the 2 drives to make them 2 singles and you will lose all information.
goto my computer left click and look at how many hdd's are shown, if you have a c,d and perhaps f (am guessing most people use usb memory sticks now) ensure that each drive is separately displayed. if for instance you have 2 hdd's plus the memory stick and only see 2 hdd's than you hav a raid array.
Backing up a raid array in case it is needed: it is actually fairly straight forward, make an ISO image of the current array and e-mail it to yourself, back it up to cd or use a memory stick or firewire drive. remove the raid array through bios reboot the pc and install the iso image to one of the disks after the windows install. This will reinstall all of the previous programs etc and make them available
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