Installing Windows 7 x64 onto a RAID 0 Array bigger than 2tb

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I recently bought 6 x 500gig Drives with the purpose of RAIDing them in a Striped Array, which i did. I then found out since my MB doesn't support UEFI i cant install Windows 7 onto a drive bigger than 2tb and setting it as a boot drive. So what i did was a i created two RAID 0 Drives. 120gig for windows and the other for the rest of the space. This works fine.

But i had an idea, Can i create a Array with all the space and then leave a USB stick plugged into the machine and Windows then leaves the System partition of 100mb on the flash drive.
So eventually we get to the question, Will this work?
I am all hapy to try it but I do have a lot of stuff to back up and dont want to do it all just to realise Windows still says no.

Any ideas ?
 
It should work but you'll have to mark the usb flash drive as a non-removable media.
here is a link to a bit of software that could do this.
After using it your flash drive will be usable as any other HDD. In fact it will be shown as a hard drive and not removable drive.
But just be careful I don't recommend system files on a flash drive. Their not the most reliable.

Cheers mate
 
Thanks , I will try it.
I dont have a exam till Monday so what the heck here goes nothing
 
Well the result was that the two flash drives I had bought didn't want to be set as non removable.
All the driver fixes only worked for Windows XP.

I think i will try modify the firmware in Linux or something :S or just settle
 
Soz man....will keep looking for some info 4 u!

Cheers mate

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