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I never tried Raid myself, but it should not be a problem. I always avoided Raid because of the complications. Since 5 years I go with SSDs. I use them even for externals now.
I never tried Raid myself, but it should not be a problem. I always avoided Raid because of the complications. Since 5 years I go with SSDs. I use them even for externals now.
I do a lot of video work too and work with internal and external SSDs as well as an eSata attached SSHD and an i7 CPU. Works well. I use a lot a lossless video editor. That renders the selection in seconds.
Unless there are installation problems - which well could be the case with RAID - there is no reason to use special tools or cleaning the HD which confers no benefit whatsoever except to overcome install failures, or wipe the HD so that data cannot be retrieved by most methods.
So you only need to follow the steps in Clean Install Windows 7 making sure to delete all partitions using the Drive Options in Steps 7 and 8, create New partition(s) as you wish, install to first partition after the small boot partition which will be assigned and is no concern at all.
I never used diskpart before, but I just looked it up and it seems to be pretty straight forward!? Anyhow, I installed a second OS, just to see if it would work. I went to 'disk management' and shrunk my volume C. after that I followed steps 6 through 8, from this guide:
Clean Install Windows 7
and installed Windows Server 2008R2. I can now choose which version I would like to boot. That being said, I am wondering if I can use the same steps and delete ALL partitions, create a new one and then install Windows again!? I think so...
thanks,
G
p.s. in other words: I do not need any tools like Partition Magic and such, in order to create partitions, for Windows to be installed on, right?!