Noob raid issues.
Ok, I had the opertunity to get a hold of two WD 250GB SATA drives and I wnat to play with a raid 0 setup for my games ONLY. So I hook them up, format them NTFS and windows sees both as healthy. I enable raid in the bios for both drives, save and exit. I hit F10 during the reboot sequence and choose to have both drives in stripped format. all looks well here.
Boot into windows and it detects unknown hardware, I install the drivers for raid that came with my mobo. reboot. During the reboot sequence it states that the stripped array is 460Gb or somthing close to that and when I get into windows it states that I have only on drive now and its size is 230 Gb. What?
What do I need to do? What am I missing? How nOOb am I!
Zuntar
Boot into windows and it detects unknown hardware, I install the drivers for raid that came with my mobo. reboot. During the reboot sequence it states that the stripped array is 460Gb or somthing close to that and when I get into windows it states that I have only on drive now and its size is 230 Gb. What?
What do I need to do? What am I missing? How nOOb am I!
Zuntar
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You need to partition and format the new drive and you'll be in business.
Why should I partition it and format it, it was already formated and I don't want any partitions.
Before I enabled the raid, Drive 0 was exactly like drive 1.
I would go into windows disk management, delete any existing partitions on that drive. Make sure it is not the C partition as the drives will show up physically and not logically and may not be in the expected order.
Set a new partition using the whole drive. The format the new partition using NTFS -> quick format.
Reboot and it should show up as an available drive.
How you guys utilize the drives I have?
one 150Gb WD Raptor, two matched WD 250Gb 16M cache drives and one WD 250 Gb 8Mb cache drive.:confused2
My plan was to keep the raptor for OS and apps, games on the raided pair, and storage / back up on the slower 250Gb.