Nir N wrote:
> I just bouht a DELL Precision 390 PC with with Intel Intel 82801GB/GR
> RAID controller and 2X 500GB disks, which I migrated to a RAID 1
> array using Intel's Matrix Storafe Console program.
> Both drives are now referred to as Array_0 and display on Winodws
> (Win XP Professional SP 2) as drive C.
> I want to partition the drive into 2 partitions: 50GB for rpgorams
> and 400 GB for
> data.
> When I open the Disk Manager and try to partition the drive, no such
> option is available.
>
> How can I partition this RAD 1 drive / array?
The fact that it's RAID is not the issue.
To partition a drive is to create one or more partitions on it. The drive is
already partitioned, and has a single (C
partition on it. What you want to
do is *repartition* it, change the partition structure. Unfortunately, no
version of Windows provides any way of changing the existing partition
structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what you want is
with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known such program,
but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt
Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you
should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it
myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but it comes
highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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