raid 0 install

Well if you're doing hardware RAID (which is what it sounds like here) Windows will see the two drives as one big drive. Of course you realize the drawback is that if one drive goes, all the data on both drives goes kaput. You could add a third drive that's not RAID and put the OS on that, but that would kind of take away the speed advantage I think.

I am installing a RAID 0 in an A7N8X deluxe and want to know if there is an easy method to doing this. Must the OS win xp reside in a third ide drive or can it be transfered to the raid and bootable. Any sugestions are welcome and I use this pc for gaming mostly