Using RAID and Mirror configurations under Virtual PC

One obscure thing that you can do with Virtual PC is to configure it to support software RAID and Mirror implementations While this is rather pointless from a practical perspective (as you are not actually gaining any performance or redundancy) - it useful from an educational point of view for people who wish to familiarize themselves with these technologies - and the process of recovering from a disk failure.

As you can see in the screenshots below - I had configured a virtual machine with both a mirrored boot disk and a RAID-5 secondary volume.  I then removed the second virtual hard disk, replaced it with a new disk and recovered the data:

While this was interesting to do in a virtual machine - I was much happier to be doing it there than having to try this out on a physical computer with valuable data on it :-)

Cheers,
Ben