Formatting C Drive With Raid

I want to format my hard drive on my Abit KT7 Raid motherboard. Since this is a Raid motherboard I have 2 hard drives running in Raid 0. If I format C will that format both drives or just 1? I am using Windows ME.

It will do both-- the computer has very little idea that it is a RAID system-- the controller on the board takes care of that internally.

It's all one drive as far as the FORMAT command is concerned.

It will continue to be RAID when you are done.

Thanks for the quick reply Rapmaster. You have been helpful to me in the past. My main hard drive got a corrupted file and caused my computer to crash. I booted up off of the mirrored drive and am in the process of copying all of my files. When I am done copying my files I will need to format my c drive and reinstall my operating system. I was hoping formatting C would take care of both drives at the same time. Thanks again.

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When a drive fails on a fault tolerant RAID volume there should be a way to simply rebuild based on the mirror drive. But...

You said you were using raid 0... which doesn't make a mirror copy (it's not 'fault tolerant'). It's only for striping [performance boost.] I'm confused as to where this backup is coming from.

Normally if one disk gets messed up, they both do.

Rapmaster, I gave you bad information. I am running Raid 1 (which is mirroring) not Raid 0. Thats how I was able to boot up off my second hard drive to recover my files. I restored my files off of my mirrored drive and everything is good once again.

When you are talking software RAID (ei mirroring with Windows nt/2000 and XP) then formatting one drive is just that. If it is a HARDWARE RAID controller, then both drives act as one. What I would have done (assuming it was a software RAID mirror) is swap the SCSI ID'S on the drives, boot up the good drive alone and break the mirror, then FDISK the 'bad' drive to remove all partitions. Once that is done, you just go in to Disk Manager and re-establish the mirror.