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I have two hard drives in my notebook. I cannot add third drive.

Is there a possibility to somehow set up software RAID 0 (striped) under Windows 7? My notebook does not support hardware RAID 0.

I am looking to increase the speed of reading data from my hard drives.

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    First of all the standard warning: RAID0 is not really RAID. Now we got that out of the way: If you are looking to increase reading speed then RAID-1 will also work. If you still want to use a stripe, consider a regular /boot partition (that 100MB thing windows creates by default) and follow Luke answer below to create a striped volumes (e.g. C:, D:) for one or more partitions.
    – Hennes
    Aug 15, 2014 at 4:57

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Yes, but you need to acknowledge that you will lose all your data if even just ONE drive dies.

Having said that...

As an Administrator, right-click on Computer, and select Manage. On the left side, open up Disk Management. Once that loads, you can right-click on the hard drive itself (not the part with the drive letter), and click 'Convert to Dynamic Disk'. On your system drive, you'll need to reboot the machine.

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After you have two dynamic disks, and some free space on both drives, you can create a volume, and choose to make it Striped. Right-click on the Unallocated Space of one drive, choose 'New Striped Volume' and follow the wizard.

I have not seen the System Volume (where Windows is installed to) on a Software RAID 0, but that's not to say you can't do it. I haven't tried, so I cannot comment on that.

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