okay, so here is what i'm getting from what you said (which seems to be quite the explanation)...

Raptors in raid 0 (will have different partitions, etc.)
C: XP64
V: Vista64
L: Linux
G: Storage (games most likely hence the G)

500GB drive (will most likely have two partitions)
X: XP32
Y: Storage and backups, etc.



right now, what you're saying, is that i have essentially two "C" drives and that's causing conflicts. here is what i'm wondering... how can i go about doing this with a disk imager? can i even do that? when i load the image on will all the files still exsist with the "C:" root? or are the files configured in a "\programs\123.exe" with whatever drive letter it's on being at the begining? i haven't been in the programing world since highschool so i'm a little out of the loop with this. thanks for all the help.