Okay, here's what I did-
I had three 500 gig drives, two brand new. I set the drive configuration in the bios to "raid" before I did anything. Then, with one drive hooked up, I installed Vista. Once I had vista going, I installed all the mobo files, updated Vista and got the lasted Intel Matrix Storage Console. I then shut down the computer and hooked up the two new hard drives. When it booted up I did the "cnrl-i" and told it which drives to make a RAID 1 with. Everything looks good.
I am at the stage where I have the RAID, I mean VOLUME listed as a drive that is Unallocated. I was just recently told THIS:
"Press Start - right click My Computer - Manage - Disk Management.
New RAID Volumes and single HDDs will here be seen as Unallocated.
Initialize - (Partition) - Format."
I was able to right click on the drive (Volume) and get it to initialize, but I don't know how to format it. The only option I have is to create a "simple Volume" But that says it can only be done on single disks! I don't get it. What do I do?
I feel that I am really close to getting this working. Any help I can get will be great!
Hello,
What are you trying to do?
Let me summarize:
- you have got a system with one non-raid hdd with an OS vista installed Correct?
- You have 2 other hdds non-raid, but you want to create a raid 1 mirroring Correct?
If both are correct, here are the steps that i have used all the times on most intel desktop board.
Since an OS vista is already installed on the nonraid disk, everything will be much easier compared to a windows xp as vista should have the f6 raid driver.
Steps:
- connect the 2 non-raid hdds to the two unused sata ports
example
1st hdd non raid to sata port 0
2nd hdd raid to sata port 1
3rd hdd raid to sata port 2
dvd drive to last sata port.
- go into the bios, set the sata as raid (not ahci or ide)
- save and exit
- press ctrl + i to enter the raid oprom bios.
- create the raid 1 by selecting the correct sata drives.
- save and exit.
- your raid disk should be online and bootable on the screen.
Continue to OS which was installed on the 1st non raid drive. (note for xp, you should get a blue screen of death as there is no f6 raid driver)
Go to my computer>> disk management >> format the raid partition.
Install the latest Intel Storage Matrix Manager and you will see your raid volume.
All the best,
Kind Regards,
Aryan.
I was able to right click on the drive (Volume) and get it to initialize, but I don't know how to format it. The only option I have is to create a "simple Volume" But that says it can only be done on single disks! I don't get it. What do I do?
Thats windows talking it don't know its a RAID 1 it just sees space your RAID 1 is ready just format it.
Aryan and Peter- THANK YOU!
I just found out a bunch of stuff at another forum, came back here and then you guys confirmed it and BAM!
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I am STYLIN' over here!
Thanks thanks and more thanks to you and those like you that help us technical flunkies!
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