Installing a RAID array with XP installed already????

I have a MSI-7125 NEO4 ultra platinum board
I have a SATA hard drive with XP already installed on it which was installed without RAID.
Iis it possible to use that drive as the bootable drive in a RAID
mirroring Array?????????
If it is possible how do you do it?
If i try and install the Array it wants to install XP into unpartitioned space. It cannot see the bootable partition.
thanks

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Afraid not. All data is lost as the raid data is held in stripes across the rai discs
For striping, yes, that would be very true, but it sounds like he wants to set up a mirrored array.
In the case of a mirrored (RAID-1) array, it might be possible to set it up on the fly like this. What you'd have to try is going into the RAID controller software and telling it that it needs to rebuild (*not* create a new one) a RAID-1 array using the data on your current drive. There's no guarantee that it will work (probably depends on the controller, and if it adds any special headers/flags to RAID-1 arrays), and if it does it is likely that Windows will no longer boot properly until you do a rescue install or manually edit your boot.ini file. This is because creating the RAID-1 may change the hardware address of the drive, and when Windows goes to boot from the old hardware address, there's nothing there anymore until the old address is updated with the new one.
Anyways, if you want to do a RAID-0, there's no way while preserving your current data. Doing a RAID-1 might be possible, though still potentially problematic.

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