Help Me Configure New Hard Drive Setup

I'm currently upgrading my 8-Core Mac to Snow Leopard, FCP Studio 3, and CS4. I've also archived all of my editorial projects to external hard drives (leaving me with blank, scratch drives) and I'm now, exclusively using an HVX200/P2 workflow. I'm hoping some forum members can help me configure the best possible hard drive configuration for media back-up and realtime edit.
Here's what I'm working with:
• 1, internal 250GB hard drive (OS drive)
• 3, internal 500GB hard drives
• 1, CalDigit VR 1.3TB external hard drive (eSATA)
• 1, Glyph 1TB external hard drive (eSATA)
• 1, G-Raid 1TB external hard drive (FW800)
I also have several, external, FW800 drives which could get incorporated if need be but I'm leaving those out for now since they would be good for archiving. I'm anxious to hear what configurations people suggest.

Int Drive 1- OSX and apps. FCP project backups
Int Drive 2 - project & media
Int Drive 3 - project & media
Int Drive 4 - temp scratch/render files
1 TB G-raid 800 - clone of system drive + disk images of all professional software (perhaps 2 partitions to keep 2 separate back up versions)
1.3 TB Caldigit -back up of Int Drives 2 & 3
1 TB Glyph - used when needed for temp sneekernet, temp project backup, etc.
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Lets start afresh. First do you want an XP or Vista system on your new hard drive? Do you know if the recovery disks you got with your system are for the operating system you want on the new drive?
If you bought a Vista machine with XP downgrade Vista will be preinstalled on the system and it gets delivered with XP recovery disks. The opposite can also be true the machine is delivered with XP installed and with Vista recovery disks. Iin both cases if you want to upgrade to a new hard disk on the preinstalled operating system you must first yourself burn recovery disks for the preinstalled system. Start -- All programs -- Thinkvantage -- Create Product Recovery Media, first disk must be CD the last two can be DVDs.
When you are sure you have the right set of recovery disks XP or Vista, boot from them and let them format the disk. They will automatically install the service partition and use all the remaining space of the new hard drive for the C partition. When I think about it even for Vista on the T61 there will be only two partitions C: and a hidden partition for the RnR service partition. The S and Q partitions only apply to the new T400/500 -- I should not have mentioned them.
If its the recovery disks that were delivered with the machine that are the right one for the op sys you want on the new hard drive and they dont produce a bootable system -- call Lenovo support and get new ones.
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I'm not sure why everyone's so fixated on the hard drive's partitioning and whatnot... that wouldn't have any relation to whether or not you could boot from the Mac OS X install disk. From the sounds of it, your problem is that you have no bootable system on the hard drive and can't boot from the Mac OS X install disk, correct?
If that's right, then the problems are very simple indeed. First, your machine may not meet the [Snow Leopard system requirements|http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html], thus can't boot from a SL install disk. If this is a 2008 MBP, that's unlikely.
Second, you could be using a bad disk. The most likely explanation, in my experience, is that you're using the gray disks that shipped with a different machine. You did say that it was a retail disk, though, so I'm assuming that's not it. You could also have a retail disk with a system that's too old. You [can't install an older system than what your Mac shipped with|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186]. That also doesn't seem likely if this is indeed a 2008 MacBook Pro. Or, perhaps the disk itself is defective.
The other possibility would be some kind of hardware problem, perhaps involving the optical drive.
One way to determine what's going on is to try booting with the gray disks that shipped with your machine. If you can't boot from those disks either, you're probably looking at an optical drive problem. If you can, try running [Apple Hardware Test|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509] to rule out other possible hardware problems.

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you cannot put the sata HD in that enclosure.
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Please help me arrange my hard drive setup, testing out different Raid arrays.

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Look at this link Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Installing Software Support Page
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