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Contemplating RAID 0... possible?

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RunsCool
Hey all. I currently have a 500GB HDD in my setup. I was thinking about going to a RAID 0 with dual Caviar Black 640GB drives. My question is whether I can keep my current OS and "ghost" it to the RAID setup. My Win7 is the upgrade media, so a fresh install is out of the question. Is this possible, or do I need to install Win7 from scratch in order to enable a RAID setup? Thanks, and +rep for helpful posts.
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Lord Xeb
Just put your OS on the RAID not bother with ghosting as there is no need. I am running RAID and everything runs fine with me.
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Raid 0 has caused me more trouble then anything. + It's not really worth it.
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RunsCool
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Just put your OS on the RAID not bother with ghosting as there is no need. I am running RAID and everything runs fine with me.

How would I go about doing that if I merely have the "upgrade media" for Win7? It was my understanding that the upgrade requires that a previous version of the OS is on the drive you are trying to upgrade...
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Do you have a vista disk? If so install that then do the upgrade. You may have to call microsoft to activate it.
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You can install clean from just the upgrade media. Just use the upgrade media to install as usual, don't enter a product key, and uncheck "register automatically when online", then when Win7 loads up run the upgrade from the disk (while in Windows) and enter your key then.
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You can install clean from just the upgrade media. Just use the upgrade media to install as usual, don't enter a product key, and uncheck "register automatically when online", then when Win7 loads up run the upgrade from the disk (while in Windows) and enter your key then.

This. I had to do it and it works perfect. And RAID0 is awesome! The speeds are great and I haven't had any problems. I have seagates but those caviar blacks are screamers.
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Raid 0 has caused me more trouble then anything. + It's not really worth it.
Heresy....at least on this forum.
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