Please help me format my two hard drives on one computer and then set up as RAID 1

Hi...



I want to format my 2 hard drives on my one PC.

I think there is way to do in MS-DOS...would be best right?



I have C: and D: drives...C: right now is master D: is slave



C: MAXTOR 4K020H1 (20 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)

D: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 (74 GB, IDE)







How can I format these and then after (before installing OS) set-up as RAID 1? I'd like D: to be the data drive and the C: drive to be the "high performance" drive or whatever.



Thanks..

That's really not going to work. RAID 1 mirrors all data to a second drive, to help reduce the potential for data loss. It doesn't improve performance. Worse yet, if you set up those two drives in RAID 1 you'll have a total of 20GB of available space, and it will end up being slower than if you had the drives separately.

If you do that you will only get 20gb usuable space because that is your smallest drive. If you want to do RAID-1 then you should have matching drives. It's not going to give you as much a performance boost as theory would suggest according to several tests I've read on the Internet. Plus even though RAID-1 mirrors your data in case of a single drive failure, if the RAID Array itself goes corrupt or your motherboard with the RAID controller dies your drive data will be SOL.