Changing partition sizes in vista on a raid0 setup ?

Hello all,

I have 2x320gb drives in raid 0 on my covet m6400,

i have 3 partitions, c:295gb, d:298:gb, v:242mb ( dell diagnostics etc)

Question: Can i shrink the d drive to say 200gb and create another partition of 98gb without destroying the raid0 so i can install a linux os?

is the raid 0 based on the partitions or the actual discs?

thanks a bunch

 

I don't have an M6400, but your RAID is probably host-based and on the disk level. You can verify that by checking in Disk Management and seeing if you've got two disk entries.

That said, it is host raid, not hardware raid, so most Linux variants will not work with it, not well anyway. I'd suggest running your Linux distro in a virtual machine or try out Wubi (though again, I'm not sure how well this will work with a soft RAID 0).

 

thanks Jason, not worried about running linux under the raid0 but rather worried about shrinking the d drive and if it will delete the data on it if i create a new partition from the shrunk size... and then install linux on that partition.