Hi Folks,
I have a Dell Dimension 9200 (Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram) running XP Pro in a Raid 0 config using 2 x 250GB Western Digital SATA drives.
I know the benefits of RAID 0, supposedly faster but not safer, and certainly not easy to fix when it all goes wrong, so I've decided I want to go to a two disc system, 1 x 250GB system disc and 1 x 250GB data disc.
I have Norton Ghost (actually it's Save & Restore 2) so I have a complete copy of my OS and all the programs and settings of my system on an external hard drive.
Can I simply reconfigure the drives as singles, then use Norton to reload my system onto the first drive? Or are there some horrible motherboard/BIOS/OS gremlins out there waiting to teach me not to bu**er about with my system?
Regards.

There should be an option in the BIOS to disable RAID.

However if I understand RAID 0 correctly your Norton image will be 500GB so would not fit on a 250GB drive.

If you use the Dell recovery options for a factory reset it might be possible to start all over without RAID.

There should be an option in the BIOS to disable RAID.

It may need to be set to ATA (or the like) rather than disable.

You should back up all your data before trying to break up the array.

Hi Folks,
Thanks for the replies so far.
The Norton backup file is only about 45GB so it would fit easily on one of the 250GBs but I understand what you said about it expecting to find a 500GB drive.
Is there a way to do a backup of my whole system including programs and settings so that I can then reload it onto a smaller drive?
(I have a lot of programs, mail, and custom settings and I don't want to have to go through all that loading and setting up again, if I can possibly avoid it!!).
I have Partition Magic so what if I partitioned the 500GB RAID 0 array into two 250s (Is it possible to partition raid discs?) so that the system was on the first one, then took a fresh backup which would then only be 250GB.
Regards.