If you choose to dual boot and run both Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista, you run the risk of losing your data when a hard drive dies. To fix this, you can create a RAID10 setup. This tutorial will show you how to perform an Ubuntu and Windows dual boot with a RAID10 setup. Step 1: creating RAID set in BIOS After powering up the system, press CTRL-I to go to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Choose create RAID-volume. Choose a name, for example: diskset. Don't use numbers, some installation scripts in Ubuntu check for numbers in the disknames to determine if its a disk or a partition. I made the mistake to choose diskset1 as name. I wasn't able to rename the RAID volume, so I had to start all over! Choose RAID10, 64k stripe-size. Your RAID set is now created. Step 2: install Microsoft Windows This step is pretty straight-forward. Vista recoqnizes the RAID set and displays it as 1 single disk. During the install, create a partition for Windows and leave enough diskspace for ...
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